[Oledb-dev] [HACKERS] Re: double precision error with pg linux server, but not with windows pg server

[Stefan Kaltenbrunner]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi guys of the pgsql-hackers list.
> 
> I've received a bug report on the OLE DB list, which I suspect is
> actually a server bug. The correspondence so far is listed further on,
> but, in a nutshell, user runs an OLE DB client on windows (OLE DB uses
> the binary interface), and server version 8.1.9 on Windows, and all is
> fine. When the server is switched to 8.1.8 on Debian Etch on ARM9,
> float8 type is not received properly by OLE DB.

if 8.1.8 is built based on the debian packages it is probably compiled
with --enable-integer-datetimes.
Is the oledb client library able to cope with that ?

Stefan