From: Ken J. Wright <ken@ori-ind.com>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] ODBC bind trouble with bigint
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 21:48:39 -0800
Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000201214837.00877860@ren.cncware.com> (raw)
At 20:39 02/01/2000 -0500, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
>
>"Ken J. Wright" wrote:
>>
>> With Delphi 4/ODBCExpress 5.04 and psqlodbc 6.40.0008, this error occurs
>> when opening a dataset that includes an int8 column.
>>
>> Project1 ee:dc ENTER SQLBindCol
>> HSTMT 0x010b2138
>> UWORD 3
>> SWORD -25 <SQL_C_SBIGINT>
>> PTR 0x011b7574
>> SDWORD 0
>> SDWORD * 0x011b75ac
>>
>> Project1 ee:dc EXIT SQLBindCol with return code -1 (SQL_ERROR)
>> HSTMT 0x010b2138
>> UWORD 3
>> SWORD -25 <SQL_C_SBIGINT>
>> PTR 0x011b7574
>> SDWORD 0
>> SDWORD * 0x011b75ac
>>
>> DIAG [HYC00] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver
does not support
>> this parameter (0)
>>
>> ************
>
>
>I'm thinking this has to be an odbc 3.0 compatibility problem. The
>default for odbc 2.x is that BIGINT uses a SQL_C data type of
>SQL_C_CHAR. I tested BindCol and it worked fine. There is no
>SQL_C_SBIGINT in odbc 2.x. Seems to me the odbc 3.0 driver manager
>should bridge the gap and use an SQL_C_CHAR for the driver side.
The bridge does seem to fall short occasionally ;-(
>So, I don't know what to tell you. I imagine you don't have any control
>over the SQL_C_ data type, right?
I copied this message to the ODBCExpress people as well. It's all part of
the code that's wrapped around opening a dataset. The API can certainly be
hacked, but I'll wait until I here something back. It takes a couple/few
days, but they usually have a good reply.
Ken
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