Re: Windows, ODBC drivers and strange points ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marten Feldtmann
> Sent: 09 October 2005 12:04
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ODBC] Windows, ODBC drivers and strange points ...
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use PostgreSQL via ODBC under Windows
> and IBM VisualAge Smalltalk. Normally ODBC works
> pretty well, but I've found two problems with the
> ODBC driver of PostgreSQL, which makes the whole
> thing not  working:
>
>
> a) All column names are returned from the database
>   in lowercase and not in the form the client send
>   then when doing the "create table ..." statement.
>
>   Which leads to the problem, that other frameworks
>   on top of it do not find their columns do make the
>   oo-rdbms mapping stuff.

No, table names are returns in the correct case:

    Successfully connected to DSN 'foo'.
SQLTables:
In:    StatementHandle = 0x003B18D8, CatalogName = SQL_NULL_HANDLE,
NameLength1 = 0, SchemaName = SQL_NULL_HANDLE, NameLength2 = 0,
    TableName = SQL_NULL_HANDLE, NameLength3 = 0, TableType =
SQL_NULL_HANDLE, NameLength4 = 0
Return:    SQL_SUCCESS=0

Get Data All:
"TABLE_QUALIFIER", "TABLE_OWNER", "TABLE_NAME", "TABLE_TYPE", "REMARKS"
<Null>, "public", "MiXeD_CaSe_TaBlE", "TABLE", ""
<Null>, "public", "UPPER_CASE_TABLE", "TABLE", ""
<Null>, "public", "lower_case_table", "TABLE", ""
3 rows fetched from 5 columns.

Are you sure you quoted the names when you created them? If not, the
server will have folded them to lower case.

> b) All strings returned by the ODBC driver are defined
>   in a buffer, which is offered to the ODBC subsystem
>   as a string doubled in size - though I told the
>   databaase NOT to create a UNICODE db.
>
>   An example: a column has the result type char(15). The
>   ODBC drivers put the result of this column into a
>   memory with a size of 30 characters.
>
>   The ODBC subsystem now thinks: fine - I've a character
>   column with size 30 and creates a string 30 characters
>   long and one gets 15 corrects characters and 15 "0" (null)
>   bytes.

With 3 bytes of data, (ie. The word 'foo') I get:

SQLGetData:
In:        Statementhandle = 0x003B18D8, ColumnNumber = 1,
TargetType = SQL_C_CHAR=1, TargetValuePtr = 0x000952D0, BufferLength =
600,
        StrLen_or_IndPtr = 0x00093E58
Return:    SQL_SUCCESS=0
Out:        *TargetValuePtr = "foo", *StrLen_or_IndPtr = 3

When I request an SQL_C_CHAR, or if I request a SQL_C_WCHAR:

SQLGetData:
In:        Statementhandle = 0x003B18D8, ColumnNumber = 1,
TargetType = SQL_C_WCHAR=-8, TargetValuePtr = 0x00097FF8, BufferLength =
600,
        StrLen_or_IndPtr = 0x0009F2F8
Return:    SQL_SUCCESS=0
Out:        *TargetValuePtr = "foo", *StrLen_or_IndPtr = 6

Regards, Dave.