Re: DBI->connect aka DBD::Sybase::db::_login fails with "no error string" - patch included
Michael Peppler <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:41 -0600, Scott Edwards wrote:
> DBI.pm is returning a literal "no error string" in $DBI::errstr after
> I attempt to connect to a mssql server. I've provided source
> snippets, dbi trace output, and a patch I've made in an attempt to
> more clearly isolate the problem. As far as I can guess, I think the
> _login function exists in XS code. I have no idea why it's passing
> back a failure response, but not providing a helpfull error message
> with it. ("it's broke" is about as usefull.)
Agreed - but what this means is that no error string was recovered from
the underlying CT-Lib code, which means that the error callback was
never called.
My guess is this is a freetds bug - I would take it up on the freetds
mailing list.
Michael
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