Re: Miscellaneous bugfixes (primarily ODBC)

On 06/20/2011 05:10 PM, Nathan Bird wrote:
> I've just posted in the master branch
>    * Numerous fixes to the ODBC backend
>     * Support LIMIT (mssql uses TOP N instead of LIMIT N)
>     * handle column precision problems for mssql backends
>     * handle IDENTITY as a column constraint
>     * bigint support works with at least postgres (8.4) and mssql 200{0,5}
>
>    * listify was broken when called with nil (which is both an atom and a
> list)
>
>    * Fixes to some tests that had invalid where expressions in oodml/select
>
>    * Made parse-timestring and parse-datestring handle already parsed values
>      rather than erroring on types other than string
>
>    * Incorporate Ryszard Szopa's patch for functional expression in :order by
>
> We've been using these patches in our production systems for years (some
> of this is as old as 2007).
>
> Backwards compatibility: The only problem we forsee is if you are using
> bigints right now and expect the return value to be a string rather than
> a numeric type.
>
> If you think these patches might effect you, please pull from the git
> repo[1] and give it a try. Otherwise we'll officially release this in a
> week or so.
>
> [1] http://git.b9.com/clsql.git
>

I've pushed up a couple patches:
  * ODBC: memory management improvements- trying to make sure there are 
appropriate frees and releases.
  * MSSQL: top + distinct work together
  * deleted a spurious line from bad merge resolving.


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