PHP 4.0 Bug #6527 Updated: empty field returned are not empty

ID: 6527 Updated by: joey Reported By: lenar@city.ee Status: Closed Bug Type: Sybase-ct (ctlib) related Assigned To: Comments: For further reference: http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asg1200e/aserefmn/@ebt-link;pt=782?target=%25N%14_3737_START_RESTART_N%25 Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-13 05:30:26] joey@php.net Just to document: In the Sybase documentation manual "SQL Reference: Datatypes and System Tables", on page 7-27: The empty string ("") is treated as a single space. In *char* and *nchar* *not null* columns, the result is a (column-length) field of spaces. You can get around this by adding rtrim(field) in place of field in the select clause. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-12-06 21:50:25] joey@php.net This is actually incorrect behavior on the part of their ISQL utility according to Sybase's own documentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-06 14:02:44] lenar@city.ee hi, I'm really sorry messing the names up. Anyway when you change the ASA to ASE and vice versa in my comment then the meaning is correct. I really don't know where is the source of this problem, but I can only say that connecting to ASA (Anywhere) server with ISQL over network the behavior is correct (empty strings not spaces instead). And if this is the Sybase problem then do they know about it? Have somebody been in contact with them regarding this case? If yes, then what have they said? Lenar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-06 13:13:11] joey@php.net Unless you can convince me otherwise (getting sybase products correct would be a good start) I will close this bug... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-09-06 13:12:28] joey@php.net #1: You have got yourself ass-backwards ASA = /A/daptive /S/erver /A/nywhere ASE = /A/daptive /S/erver /E/nterprise Please edit your last comment with this in mind, as I cannot understand what you are trying to say. My guess is that you are using the /ASE/ libraries to connect to an /ASA/ database, which (AFAIK) has no officially defined behavior. Long story short: Connecting to /ASE/ behaves the way that /ASE/ always behaves. I'm fairly sure that this is NOT a PHP bug, but is due to the way that Sybase CT-Lib handles this. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online. Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=6527