Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 09:20 +0200 schrieb Markus Hoenicka:
> Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> was heard to say:
> 
> >> I have time pressure on my current project, and getting the milliseconds
> >> is not crucial, so I can forward now with a time_t. After that, I would
> >> like to look deeper at libDBI and create patches to return any value as
> >> a string representation. Would that be a good idea?
> >>
> >> Holger
> >>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> seems I've missed the start of this thread, so please excuse me for  
> jumping in late. Please have a look at the current CVS revision. We do  
> have the following functions here:
> 
> /* get_as* functions */
> long long dbi_result_get_as_longlong(dbi_result Result, const char  
> *fieldname);
> long long dbi_result_get_as_longlong_idx(dbi_result Result, unsigned  
> int fieldidx);
> char *dbi_result_get_as_string_copy(dbi_result Result, const char *fieldname);
> char *dbi_result_get_as_string_copy_idx(dbi_result Result, unsigned  
> int fieldidx);
> 
> They do pretty much of what was asked for. I can't recall the details  
> atm, but the first two functions try hard to return an integer  
> representation of whatever was stored in the column, and the remaining  
> two functions return a string representation. You might give that a  
> try and see if you can get your TIMESTAMP data in a useful form. If  
> not, feel free to submit specific patches that implement the missing  
> functionality.
> 
> Once again, I have to apologize that I won't be able to take care of  
> the release process for another month or two due to time constraints.

Thank you so much, Markus.

I have no time to check the svn code at the moment, but I'll sure do
after the pressure on my project is gone. And yes, it looks like these
are exactly the functions I require. I can, after my milestone, test
these functions for you. Anything else I can help to bring a new libDBI
release forward?

Holger


> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
> 



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