Re: wrong values in ODBC parameters?

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your reply.
I tried to build psqlodbc.dll using 7.1 beta1.
Sorry, still the same exception.

Do you have any other ideas, hints,etc.?

Unfortunately I don't know enough about ODBC.

regards

Johann

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 02:44:58 -0500 (EST), Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Try 7.1 beta1 and see if the bug has been fixed already.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> now my initial problem:
>>
>> I'm using a commercial application which is crashing while trying to
>> insert sets into tables (using psqlodbc.dll).
>>
>> I did some tracing:
>>
>> It crashes in module convert.c / copy_statement_with_parameters
>> in function:
>>
>> convert_special_chars(char *si, char *dst, int used)
>>
>> The access violation appears at:
>>
>> if (si[i] == '\r' && i+1 < strlen(si) && si[i+1] == '\n')
>>
>> si = 0x00000001
>> used = -103
>>
>> It seems that it runs into an access violation, since 'si' has
>> been assigned a wrong value. Also 'used = -103' doesn't
>> seem to be healthy value. 'dst' seems to be alright.
>>
>> convert_special_chars was called in
>> copy_statement_with_parameters:
>>
>> convert_special_chars(buf, &new_statement[npos], used);
>>
>> 'buf' seems to be the same like 'buffer':
>>
>> So 'used' and 'buffer' where assigned at (in copy_statement_with_parameters):
>>
>> /* Assign correct buffers based on data at exec param or not */
>> if ( stmt->parameters[param_number].data_at_exec) {
>> used = stmt->parameters[param_number].EXEC_used ? *stmt->parameters[param_number].EXEC_used : SQL_NTS;
>> buffer = stmt->parameters[param_number].EXEC_buffer;
>> }
>> else {
>> used = stmt->parameters[param_number].used ? *stmt->parameters[param_number].used : SQL_NTS;
>> buffer = stmt->parameters[param_number].buffer;
>> }
>>
>> Well, here my knowledge ends. Something seems to be wrong with the ODBC parameters
>> supplied by my application, but:
>>
>> Same application works flawless with MS-SQL-ODBC and ORACLE-ODBC.
>>
>> So IMHO there must be a problem in psqlodbc.dll. Even though I admit that the buggy
>> call might be accepted in MS-ODBC due to another bug. :-)
>>
>> Could somebody point me in the correct direction? Any hints? Patches?
>> I really would like to use Postgres for my app.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Johann
>>
>
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