[unixODBC-dev] Status of BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE?

[ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT]

> 
> I'm wondering how sane it is to consider turning on
> BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE in a 64-bit Linux distribution (I'm responsible
> for Red Hat's packaging of unixODBC, if you're wondering).  
> The comments
> in sqltypes.h about it are pretty discouraging, but maybe 
> that's obsolete
> information now?
> 
> I trolled the archives a bit and found
> http://mailman.unixodbc.org/pipermail/unixodbc-dev/2008-Januar
> y/001139.html
> which suggests that Debian is enabling it but found several additional
> fixes necessary.  Comments on the correctness/completeness of that
> patch would be especially useful.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

I wrote the mail :)

IMHO we should push BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE like Debian does. The main reason is that main
ODBC platform (win64) use it! Converging all to a single definition is better.
After many posts to Microsoft I get this page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms716287(VS.85).aspx! There are currently some
issues (for instance SQLROWSETSIZE should be SQLULEN, not SQLUINTEGER) but mostly should
work. The real problem is drivers which should be checked better but I think that if
Debian is compiling unixODBC with BUILD_REAL_64_BIT_MODE defined they already fixed many
issues for you :)

Frediano Ziglio
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