Re: possible ODBC bug with '-infinity'

[Andrei Kovalevski <andyk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Hello.

Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> --- On Sun, 12/2/07, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
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> > Do you think it is an appropriate handling ?
> >     
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> This is a good question.  I am not sure what an appropriate handling would be.  My first test of '-infinity' (which resulted in a raised error) was with an ado recordset.  Since you are questioning what is appropriate I thought that I should try a few different client front ends to see how they treated (+/-)infinity:
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> Client   |   -infinity       | + infinity
> ADO      | <error>           |9999-12-31 23:59:59|
> Access/LT|1899-11-30 00:00:00|9999-12-31 23:59:59|
> OOB(ODBC)|0001-01-03 00:00:00|9999-12-31 23:59:59|
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> ADO = ado recordset created in VB
> Access/LT = a linked tabled in MS-Access (probably DAO/ODBC?)
> OOB(ODBC) = Open Office.org Base ODBC connection to the Database.
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> Having done further tests, it seems that the error must be a bug with ADO since other clients have not a problem with making -infinity equal to the smallest time stamp that their respective data type can display.  In my case, I do not really care about what time stamp values are displayed by the clients for (+/-) infinity since I use these values as an implied NULL value for time stamps.  Unfortunately, ADO is broken and can't display any value for -infinity.
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> > How do you think the driver should treat -infinity ?
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> It seems that it already handles it correctly. I was mistaken in thinking that the translation of (+/-) infinity was handled by ODBC. :o)
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It should be handled by ODBC because of possible type conversions on the 
ODBC driver layer. Take a look: 
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709280aspx. Table shows 
required conversions. Also all Microsoft applications notify ODBC driver 
by setting additional parameter during initialization. I think ADO 
requests 'inifinity' value as SQL_C_CHAR and sure it doesn't expect it 
to be 'infinity'.


> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.
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