From: | "Julia A(dot)Case" <julie(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>, "Julia A(dot)Case" <julie(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Naming of the PostreSQL ODBC .dll file |
Date: | 1998-04-17 16:19:54 |
Message-ID: | 19980417161954.39300@MageNet.com |
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Quoting Byron Nikolaidis (byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com):
> That was one of the biggest changes with this driver. It no longer supports
> 16 bit windows. All the messy Dummy Handle Lists that used to be mainted were
> eliminated and now the handle is the pointer to the structure for all the
> Statement functions. The old driver used GlobalAlloc and GlobalLock to handle
> 16 bit because the pointer returned by malloc may be moved and is not
> sufficient to be used for a handle. In 32 bit windows, you can safely use
> malloc.
>
The last time I made mumblings of droping 16 bit support I got
roasted pretty good. There seem to still be a lot of 16 bit users out
there that would like to use the driver.
Julie
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