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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:19:54 +0000
From: "Julia A.Case" <julie@hub.org>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>, "Julia A.Case" <julie@hub.org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Naming of the PostreSQL ODBC .dll file
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	from Byron Nikolaidis on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 04:13:42PM -0400

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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