[freetds] Big changes (fwd)

Zeev or Tom or anybody else with a working Sybase setup, could you talk to this guy and see what he needs? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 01:37:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Bruns <camber@umcc.ais.org> Reply-To: TDS Development Group <freetds@franklin.oit.unc.edu> To: TDS Development Group <freetds@franklin.oit.unc.edu> Subject: [PHP-DEV] [freetds] Big changes Hi All. I've made some changes and am checking them into CVS currently. Among the changes is better handling of data type conversions. src/dblib/convert.c is changed (hopefully for the better), adn I think all the dbconvert crap will go easier now. Also I changed the mechanism for passing column values from tds to the upper layers. This was done mostly to support row buffering, specifically with an eye towards getting PHP to work, since it uses row buffering. Anyway, the old mechanism was just to have a 255 char field in the TDSCOLINFO struct and the upper layers looked for it there. This was especially wasteful on memory since even a 1 byte value would get 255 characters. (Actually this was a temporary fix that stayed far too long). The new mechanism is to calcuate the row size when the result set is processed and pack all the values into one buffer. This will work especially well for row bufferring as we will need only one memory allocation for the entire buffer instead of mallocing for every row or column. Sorry for being long winded, but the point of all this is that dblib seems to be working ok, but Ive definately broke ctlib for the time being. I will try to get it back in working order soon. If any of the PHP guys on the list are reading, if you have a way of testing the modules (ie sybase) without a webserver (maybe some test harness code) please let me know it would help shorten the debug cycle. Brian --- You are currently subscribed to freetds as: [rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-freetds-12801E@franklin.oit.unc.edu -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net