Re: psqlODBC text length with no records

Sending the SQL through the postgres driver to a Postgres ver 9 server, where it runs,
I see the data types in the client software that is calling the ODBC driver
(in this case VFP, foxpro).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:27 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 07:29 AM, Barry Bell wrote:
> Behavior seems different if you get the text from table vs fixed value.
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> The select 'ABCDE' from dual return a text(longchar, memo),
> The select initcap(varcharfield) from varchartable returns varchar
> The select initcap(varcharfield) from varchartable where 1=0 returns
> text(longchar, memo),

Where are you determining the data types?

In other words you run the SQL where and you see the output and data type where?

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