SHOW FIELDS suddenly returns byte array in MyODBC 3.51

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Hi,



I'd been using, in a vb dll myodbc 3.51.09 for a while, and recently
installed the last version (3.51.23) on a new server, hosting for the rest,
the same MySQL version (4.1, in preparation of an upgrade) and application
making the requests



To find out about the structure of the database in use (to detect older
versions) The application issues the command "SHOW FIELDS FROM mytable" and
expects a string in the returning recordset for the "field" column



Like in :



Set recordset = DatabaseConnection.Execute("SHOW FIELDS FROM mytable")

S = recordset("field")





After installation of 3.51.23 recordset("field") (and recordset ("type")
too) contains a byte array with the character codes of the value, e.g.
instead of returning "lcode" it returns (108,99,111,100,101).



I coded a patch, but does anyone have the same problem, and why was this
done ? This is an incompatibility nobody was waiting for, or was it.



Any clues ?




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