#42768 [NEW]: PDO ODBC: Lob doesn't work

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Operating system: Windows 2000 SP4
PHP version:      5.2.4
PHP Bug Type:     PDO related
Bug description:  PDO ODBC: Lob doesn't work

Description:
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I try to get a long binary field from Microsoft SQL Server. This simple
thing is quite problematic with PDO ODBC. I already reported bug #42765.
Now I found a way to bypass it and faced another big problem.

PDO returns long binary fields always as HEX string which is also
corrupted. LOBs doesn't work at all... So there's simply no way to get
correct binary data with PDO.

So I'm forced to use ODBC unified extension.

Reproduce code:
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<plaintext>
<?php
$dbh=new PDO('odbc:Driver={SQL
Server};Server=localhost;Database=test','user','pass');

$s=$dbh->prepare("set textsize 10485760; select [nbin] from [atts] where
[id]=1");
$s->bindColumn('nbin',$bin,PDO::PARAM_LOB);
$s->execute();
$s->fetch(PDO::FETCH_BOUND);
var_dump($bin);
?>

Note: "set textsize" to bypass bug #42765

Expected result:
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$bin should be a stream object


Actual result:
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$bin is a string instead:
string(385)
"24733D246462682D3E707265706172652822736574205445585453495A452031303438353736303B2073656C656374206E62696E2066726F6D2074626C417474732077686572652069644174743D363222293B0D0A24732D3E62696E64436F6C756D6E28276E62696E272C2462696E2C50444F3A3A504152414D5F4C4F4229&#65533;3B0D0A24732D3E6578656375746528293B0D0A24732D3E66657463682850444F3A3A46455443485F424F554E44293B0D0A7661725F64756D70282462696E29&#65533;&#65533;3B"

Why is it HEX-coded anyway?..

pack("H*",$bin) gives warning "illegal hex digit" and the result differs
from actual field value.

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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42768&edit=1
-- 
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42768&r=mysqlcfg