Re^2: Using 64 bit DBD with Sybase 15

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re: Using 64 bit DBD with Sybase 15
in thread Using 64 bit DBD with Sybase 15

Yes, the make test did work properly. By weird, I mean the date field (defined as date in the database), returns "Jan 4 2013 12:00am" as "Jan 4 2013". A field (defined as time in the database), returns "Jan 1 1900 5:00pm" as "5:00pm". In 32 bit, the dates return as "Jan 4 2013 12:00am" and "Jan 1 1900 5:00pm" respectively.

[mpeppler]

Is this with the exact same version of OpenClient, with just the 32/64 bit difference?

Because the 64bit data you get is more correct - and is also what I get with a 32bit 15.7 client:

use strict;

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Sybase:server=foo', 'user, '***');
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select convert(date, getdate()), convert(time
+, getdate())");
$sth->execute;

while(my $r = $sth->fetch) {
  print "@$r\n";
}

which outputs:

$ perl /tmp/date.pl
Feb  7 2013  3:06PM

And to me that's as it should be - you're asking for just the date, so no time portion is displayed, or just the time, and no date portion is displayed.

This is with DBD::Sybase 1.14, btw.

Michael

[tecmbg]

It does seem more correct, but I don't believe it should require me to change the code? Shouldn't this be backward compatible?

[mpeppler]

It depends... :-)

Actually you might be able to influence this via the date_fmt API - see http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase-1.14/Sybase.pm#Controlling_DATETIME_output_formats

Michael