Re: psqlODBC text length with no records

Use the cast work fine but we are using the initcap function in a lot of places
And do not want to cast to every place.
(Plus we use a lot of other functions that may have the same issue).

You said the initcap function return "text",
Is this a "short" text like a varchar
Or a long text like a clob,memo etc?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:58 AM
To: Barry Bell; Hiroshi Saito; Michael Paquier; Hiroshi Inoue
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas; Anna Gershnik; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] psqlODBC text length with no records

On 05/14/2014 05:51 AM, Barry Bell wrote:
> Tried every setting for unknown size
> Abd every settubg fir date tyoe options.
> and it always comes back as SQllongvarchar (Memo, CLOB).
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> The " Text as LongVarChar: PostgreSQL TEXT type is mapped to SQLLongVarchar, otherwise SQLVarchar." Is not working when no records are returned
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> It will work if the initcap function is not used.
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> Try it yourself with this sql statement:
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> SELECT initcap('ABCDEF') vv FROM dual WHERE 1=0
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> Will return the a sqlongvarchar(Memo,CLOB)

I do not have an ODBC test set up available right now.

FYI initcap returns TEXT:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/functions-string.html

initcap(string) text

So what happens if you cast to varchar?:

SELECT initcap('ABCDEF')::varchar vv FROM dual WHERE 1=0

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