Getting error messages to the (PHP) user

Yesterday, I thought that the problem of getting error messages back to
PHP was something that I had to solve on the PHP side.  After a little
more digging into the FreeTDS code, I'm not so sure.

The messages from SQL Server are shown in the debug log, but all that I
see on the PHP side is "General SQL Server error: Check messages from
the SQL Server".

I found that _dblib_handle_info_message() in dbutil.c handles both
actions: logging the actual SQL Server error message and returning the
hard-coded error message ("General SQL Server error...").

This hard-coded error message seems pretty useless to me -- especially
when the actual error message is right there.  Is there a reason it was
done this way?

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