Re: Cannot Use DBVERSION_72 With DBLIB In 0.91 Release

> > Maybe a bad term on my part, the code comment said it has "No effect
> > on behavior". It does set the global and that global is not used
> > anywhere from my code search too.

> Confirmed, Ken.  dbsetversion() should call tds_set_version().   The
> code you found was probably a placeholder once upon a time that never
> got finished.  Most people don't care, you see, because freetds.conf
> and TDSVER cover the same territory.  (I wonder how many db-lib
> programs ever called dbsetversion() or dbsetlversion().  I used
> Microsoft's db-lib for over 10 years without setting the version.)

> --jkl

dbsetversion() was/is needed for Sybase to get access to the numeric and decimal datatypes, according to the documentation. Our code calls it.

DBSETLVERSION() appears to be a Microsoft-ism with similar semantics. Correct?

Craig Jackson