[PHP-DB] PHP ODBC odbc_fetch_array returns uninitialized values for Booleans

2015-06-29 Thread Bruce Bailey
*Description*

The PHP function odbc_fetch_array returns uninitialized values for
PostgreSQL boolean values.  On older systems, this function returned '1'
for true and '0' for false values.  On our 64 bit system, the boolean
values appear to be uninitialized data.

*Additional information*

Increasing buffer size in php_odbc.c (odbc.so) in function odbc_bindcols,
just prior to call to SQLBindCol makes problem stop exhibiting.

SQLColAttributes(...,SQL_COLUMN_TYPE,...) returns type of SQL_VARCHAR on
system with problem, SQL_CHAR on system where code works as expected.

SQLColAttributes is deprecated (shouldn't matter, though)

*Recreation steps:*

// Create table/data in PostgreSQL

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS public.persons;
create table public.persons (id int, name varchar(255), switch_sw boolean);
insert into public.persons values (0, 'smith', true);
insert into public.persons values (1, 'jones', false);
insert into public.persons values (2, 'bailey', true);
insert into public.persons values (3, 'johnson', false);

// Test script


*Actual output*

Array
(
[id] => 0
[name] => smith
[switch_sw] => . // some unreadable binary content
)
. . .

*Expected Output*

Array
(
[id] => 0
[name] => smith
[switch_sw] => 1
)
. . .

*Software levels*

kernel - Linux C921189 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 . . . GNU/Linux
ODBC - libodbc.so.1 (cannot exactly determine version)
PostgreSQL - 9.3.0
PHP - 5.6.7

This system is little endian


Re: [PHP-DB] PHP ODBC odbc_fetch_array returns uninitialized values for Booleans

2015-06-29 Thread Bastien Koert
Is it a truly a three state field (true, false, null) or just T/F? Perhaps
a default value for the field might be better?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM Bruce Bailey 
wrote:

> *Description*
>
> The PHP function odbc_fetch_array returns uninitialized values for
> PostgreSQL boolean values.  On older systems, this function returned '1'
> for true and '0' for false values.  On our 64 bit system, the boolean
> values appear to be uninitialized data.
>
> *Additional information*
>
> Increasing buffer size in php_odbc.c (odbc.so) in function odbc_bindcols,
> just prior to call to SQLBindCol makes problem stop exhibiting.
>
> SQLColAttributes(...,SQL_COLUMN_TYPE,...) returns type of SQL_VARCHAR on
> system with problem, SQL_CHAR on system where code works as expected.
>
> SQLColAttributes is deprecated (shouldn't matter, though)
>
> *Recreation steps:*
>
> // Create table/data in PostgreSQL
>
> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS public.persons;
> create table public.persons (id int, name varchar(255), switch_sw boolean);
> insert into public.persons values (0, 'smith', true);
> insert into public.persons values (1, 'jones', false);
> insert into public.persons values (2, 'bailey', true);
> insert into public.persons values (3, 'johnson', false);
>
> // Test script
> 
>if(!($conn = odbc_connect("..." , "..." , "...")))
>   die("odbc_connect failed\n");
>
>if(!($rows = odbc_exec($conn, "select * from persons;")))
>   die("odbc_exec failed\n");
>
>for(;;)
>{
>   if (!($row = odbc_fetch_array ($rows)))
>  break;
>
>   print_r($row);
>}
>
>odbc_close($conn);
> ?>
>
> *Actual output*
>
> Array
> (
> [id] => 0
> [name] => smith
> [switch_sw] => . // some unreadable binary content
> )
> . . .
>
> *Expected Output*
>
> Array
> (
> [id] => 0
> [name] => smith
> [switch_sw] => 1
> )
> . . .
>
> *Software levels*
>
> kernel - Linux C921189 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 . . . GNU/Linux
> ODBC - libodbc.so.1 (cannot exactly determine version)
> PostgreSQL - 9.3.0
> PHP - 5.6.7
>
> This system is little endian
>