Message-ID: <3538815C.AB4754C2@sid.trust.ee>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:33:00 +0300
From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
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To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
CC: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Naming of the PostreSQL ODBC .dll file
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
> 
> > Julia,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Our web site explains this.
> >
> > I sure hope this driver doesn't have to support 16 bit!
> 
>         Hrmmm...just curious, but how many users were lost because of
> *this* decision??  Doesn't this sort of assume that *everyone* is running
> Win95 or greater?

None, if *this* decision has anything to do with the better quality of
the 
current driver.

I guess that one working 32 bit driver gets us more users than largely 
broken ones for both 32 and 16.

It may be a good idea to keep the old 16 bit driver around, but I can't 
see anyone motivated enough to actually do it ;(


Hannu