Re: mars?
Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
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On 15/gen/2012, at 16:46, Björn Lundin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I just found this freedts thingy, > and i read through the FAQ which states that MARS > is not supported, and some reason why so. > > However, a bit further down, there is a passus that > suggests it _might_ be supported in the future? > As usual I have a patch, but currently I'm unable to bring it to a proper state :( > So my question is if there are any plans to do so? > No! > Reason I ask is that I work on a system, that was developed > many years ago (1990-ish) and that is uses the concept > of opening a cursor, looping through the recordset, > and use some of those values retrieved to update other > tables within that loop. > It was developed on Mimer, then ported to Oracle. > > Last year, I ported it to MS sql-server, and boom/bang/crash, > the mars feature came up. I had not heard of dbs not supporting it > before, so I was a bit surprised. > Using odbc you can change cursors type in order to achieve this behavior. Ctlib should support cursor too but I don't remember the state. > Now, I found this Raspberri Pi system > <http://www.raspberrypi.org> > based on Arm and debian. > > I thought it would be nice to show scalability by > porting the system to this device. > > There's no Oracle client libs for arm, so I was very happy > to see freetds. But a bit sad when this mars-thingy > showed up. > > -- > /Björn bye freddy77 _______________________________________________ FreeTDS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds