Subject Re: To Dmitry Y, Re: [firebird-support] Bug with character sets
Author Kjell Rilbe
Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

> XSQLDA alone was never able to satisfy the API level developers (maybe
> except the very early days). In order to get more detailed information,
> there are special tags for isc_dsql_sql_info(). For example, it can
> deliver you all the information necessary to manually fill the XSQLDA
> (this is basically what fbclient does behind the scene). So, unless
> we're speaking about a whole new API, I don't think that such changes to
> XSQLDA are a good idea. Just ask us about adding a new statement
> information tag and use the proper API call instead.

Consider it asked. :-)

Also, please make the XSQLDA and XSQLVAR documentation very clear about
the problems of parsing/trimming/interpreting the data buffer for
char(n) columns for variable-length charsets. I expect there are a lot
of bugs out there already...

Kjell
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