Re: [Libreoffice] ODBC handles, a quibble

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 12:25 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Terrence,
>
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 12:02 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote:
> > (*) What ODBC driver invalidates an ODBC handle across
> >     compilation unit boundaries?
>
>       I have no idea - but unless I totally misunderstood this I'd be amazed
> if any did.

But this feature of the spec is *so* unhelpful!  I can only imagine
that it exists to accommodate some previously existing driver.  Ah-ha!
Perhaps one of the other programming languages uses "compilation unit"
differently.

<aside>
  I must work to get over this fascination with ugliness.  Is there a
  psychiatrist in the house?
</aside>

> > Will some kind soul here please tell me that I need not
> > worry about such things?
>
>       Certainly - you don't need to worry about such things ;-) most of the
> legacy bugs in the LibreOffice code are of the more startlingly obvious
> kind (in my experience), and in the connectivity world often have a
> helpful: // TODO - actually implement this ;-) next to them.
>
>       Does that help !

It most certainly does.

I am absolutely resolved, however, not to look at the TODO's until I
have made a comment on ...

>       Out of interest which bug / feature are you chasing ? (and do you hang
> out on IRC ? :-).

Incredible though it is, I am *again* thinking about bug
34309 "Error on importing a timestamp field from db2 via
ODBC" <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34309>,
which in turn is a recycling of OO.o bug 94543 "Error on
importing a timestamp field from AS-400 via ODBC"
<http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94543> or
<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94543>.  
(I am user 400guy in those older bugs.)

I do not hang out on IRC very much; perhaps I should do it more.

>       All the best,
>
>               Michael.

Thank you for your help and encouragement.

Terry.