Re: [Q] UTF-8 testing with Windows/ODBC 8.3.0400

[Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>]

V S P wrote:
> Hi thank you for the follow up.
> Just had a break through... 

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> Three things that I am not still sure about, and may be you can help:
>
> a) does Posgtres driver on unixODBC do the same as Windows (that is
> there is a unicode and non unicode versions of the drivers ?
> (I am interested in 64 bit linux and 64 bit freebsd ones)
>
> b) I noticed that when using the Unicode version (first) and 
> Ascii version (second) the value of SWORD right before SQLVLEN is
> different
> (it is 12 on the ascii and -9 on unicode version) -- what does this
> mean?

It's the SQL data type. 12 means SQL_VARCHAR and -9 means SQL_WVARCHAR.

> disp_otrq_x86d  8a4-b90 EXIT  SQLDescribeColW  with return code 0
> (SQL_SUCCESS)
> 		HSTMT               013F1BA8
> 		UWORD                       11 
> 		WCHAR *             0x01A28974 [       9] "cntr_data"
> 		SWORD                      512 
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BC4 (9)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BB8 (-9)
> 		SQLULEN *           0x01A28B94 (4096)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BA0 (0)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28B88 (1)
>
>
> disp_otrq_x86d  ab8-498 EXIT  SQLDescribeColW  with return code 0
> (SQL_SUCCESS)
> 		HSTMT               013F1C38
> 		UWORD                       11 
> 		WCHAR *             0x01A28974 [       9] "cntr_data"
> 		SWORD                      512 
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BC4 (9)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BB8 (12)
> 		SQLULEN *           0x01A28B94 (4096)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28BA0 (0)
> 		SWORD *             0x01A28B88 (1)

> another  question:  I have about 6 tables where about 20 fields in each
> table,
> 2 fields are 65K long (they are declared as varchar(65000) is this is OK
> for ODBC drivers, and what if anything I should be setting on them?

65K may be OK if you set the max long varchar size > 65000 but please
note that most applications/middlewares have their own limitation.
For example the limitation of MS Access is around 65000 AFAIR.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue