Re: ODBC Driver int8 Patch

As I remember, the problem is that this makes us match the ODBC v2 spec,
but then we would not match the v3 spec. Is that correct?

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> Hi,
>
> It was suggested that I post this patch here as no notice was taken of it
> when posted to interfaces!
>
> This fixes problems with int8 columns which are reported by the driver as
> SQL_BIGINT rather than SQL_CHAR as per the ODBC v2 spec. Specifically, I
> have had problems with MS ADO - any queries that contain an int8 column in
> the resultset will *always* return an empty recordset.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave.
>
> *** pgtypes.c.orig Fri Dec 22 09:12:22 2000
> --- pgtypes.c Fri Dec 22 09:12:22 2000
> ***************
> *** 217,223 ****
> case PG_TYPE_XID:
> case PG_TYPE_INT4: return SQL_INTEGER;
>
> ! case PG_TYPE_INT8: return SQL_BIGINT;
> case PG_TYPE_NUMERIC: return SQL_NUMERIC;
>
> case PG_TYPE_FLOAT4: return SQL_REAL;
> --- 217,223 ----
> case PG_TYPE_XID:
> case PG_TYPE_INT4: return SQL_INTEGER;
>
> ! case PG_TYPE_INT8: return SQL_CHAR;
> case PG_TYPE_NUMERIC: return SQL_NUMERIC;
>
> case PG_TYPE_FLOAT4: return SQL_REAL;
>

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