From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Naming of the PostreSQL ODBC .dll file |
Date: | 1998-04-18 10:33:00 |
Message-ID: | 3538815C.AB4754C2@sid.trust.ee |
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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
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