Re: Selecting a constant question

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
To: Larry McGhaw <lmcghaw(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Selecting a constant question
Date: 2007-06-13 04:29:30
Message-ID: 1181708970.6786.1.camel@hannu-laptop
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Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2007-06-12 kell 13:40, kirjutas Larry McGhaw:
> For what its worth .. Your statement about why we are the first people
> to mention this problem really got me thinking. Anyone who would
> attempt to write an ODBC driver for Postgres would run into the exact
> same issue. So I installed the official Postgres ODBC driver, and ran
> the identical query and here are my results:
>
> I probably should have looked at this first .... There is a whole
> Postgres ODBC dialog dedicated to the very subject of this thread:
> Handling of "unknown" data sizes. The pgodbc driver is configured to
> treat unknowns as varchar(255) by default,
> As shown by my example below. This can be configured up or down as
> desired.

BTW, what is the reason you are writing your own ODBC driver ?

What problems in the official one are you trying to solve ?

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Hannu

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