Hi,

>Judging by your second comment, would you consider this bug closed?

No, since the GENERATE_UNIQUE() function, which relies on a FOR BIT
DATA field still won't work. It seems to be the FOR BIT DATA variants
of the CHAR fields that PHP has problems with, and even though I
haven't bumped into more situations where I need this, It sure will
happen at some point - I can imagine I'll encounter the problem when we
next month start to store product pictures in the database. A such
field type would be convenient to use, as an alternative to xLOB
fields..

Best regards,
Eirik Overby

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>[2000-08-22 11:26:07] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have been able to narrow the problem down to the useage of the "FOR BIT DATA" 
>modifier to the CHAR type.
>
>To use the GENERATE_UNIQUE() function in DB2, one must have a CHAR(13) FOR BIT DATA 
>field. When working with a table with such a field, PHP seems to choke and do many 
>strange things.. Now that I redesigned the database into just using plain CHAR(13) 
>fields (planning to use uniqid()), everything seems to work a lot better.
>
>
>-Eirik
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>[2000-08-22 09:34:14] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi!
>
>Having installed DB2 and compiled PHP with --with-ibm-db2 option, set the environment 
>properly and started apache/php, I have the following situation:
>
>Connecting to the database works fine.
>Inserting data into tables in a database works fine, it seems. I can view the data 
>using the command line interface to DB2 or any other tool.
>
>Selecting from a table, however, is rather flakey, at best.
>
>In my case, doing a "SELECT * FROM bar" seems to work, but when using 
>odbc_result_all() to print the result set, the first field (an ID field, CHAR(13) BIT 
>DATA) shows as either empty or with strange data. This strange data is, in this case, 
>either "ml>" (part of "<html>"??) or "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:"........ .. 
>Seems to be a environment variable on my system.
>When running it through PHP4 for OS/2 instead, these "strange data" are either "ml>" 
>or parts of the SQL statement.
>
>Doing a "SELECT foo FROM bar" returns nothing at all, even though the exact same 
>statement returns the data I want in any other tool I use to manage the database.
>
>
>This sounds to me like a nasty bug - pointer problems or something? - in your code.. 
>Either that, or it's something stupid I've done. ;)
>
>Hope this can be resolved as soon as possible, since we're about to do a company-wide 
>transition from MySQL to DB2 these days. This encounter is a serious set-back ..
>
>
>Best regards,
>Eirik Overby
>Freepoint Networks GmbH
>Haburg,
>Germany
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