From: Julia A.Case <julie@hub.org>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: Julia A.Case <julie@hub.org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Naming of the PostreSQL ODBC .dll file
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:19:54 +0000
Message-ID: <19980417161954.39300@MageNet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3537B7F6.2D47134E@insightdist.com>
References: <19980417142309.62491@MageNet.com>
<3537B7F6.2D47134E@insightdist.com>
Quoting Byron Nikolaidis (byronn@insightdist.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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