Where is this Driver?

--- Jim Starkey <jas@...> wrote:

> At 05:46 PM 6/23/00 +0400, you wrote:
> >Hello, Jim!
> >
> >Our people are trying to use your OdbcJdbc library,
> and found
> >that you hardcoded dialect 3 into Jdbc (�++) code.
> This prevents
> >to connect from IB6 client to V5.x servers and
> dialect 1 databases.
> >
> >for example, in IncStatement.cpp, line 187
> >
> >isc_dsql_prepare (statusVector,
> &connection->transactionHandle,
> >&statementHandle,
> > 0, (char*) sqlString,
> SQL_DIALECT_V6, outputSqlda);
> >
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Here must be Attachment->dialect?
> >
>
> What a pleasant surprise to get a bug report, and
> pointer to the line
> in error, and a suggestion for a fix. Maybe, just
> maybe, this open
> source stuff has something going for it.
>
> As you have probably already deduced, the Attachment
> object has
> already gone through some effort to determine the
> proper database
> dialect. I put in the literal while I fought that
> fire and just
> plane forget the change it.
>
> The dialect problem was this: When the concept was
> first invented,
> a developer decided that the dialect of the original
> database creation
> should be reported, not the max dialect understood
> by the database
> (the developer is no longer with the company).
> Apparently, nobody
> stopped to consider how a tool could determine what
> dialects are
> supported by a database (this is now fixed).
>
> Anyway, I have made the change as per your
> suggestion (I actually
> added a couple of methods to fetch the dialect) and
> have checked
> in the change.
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> Jim Starkey
>

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