RE: [Firebird-devel] Incorrect mapping of SQLDA parameters

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On 22 Nov 2002 at 23:50, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fir...@li...
> > [mailto:fir...@li...]On Behalf Of
> > Nickolay Samofatov Sent: Viernes 22 de Noviembre de 2002 12:19
> >
> > This inconsistency makes usage of parameters really painful
> > experience.
> >
> > There are tools that rely on this incorrect behavior while
> > generating dynamic SQL. It seems that popular ones like IBExpert are
> > among of them.
> 
> IBO has code to overcome those bugs, too.
> 
> 
> > Supporting both new and older behavior is difficult and ill-formed,
> > but usage of new semantics will break compatibility with some of
> > existing applications.
> >
> > What I'm going to do is to test my fix some more and commit it to
> > CVS as is. Suggestions ?
> 
> You'll break several applications. Can't you make that code
> conditional at run-time?
> 

Perhaps put that code into FB 1.5, but leave 1.0 as is, since 1.5 is still alpha, 
applications will have time to adjust.