Setting PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES throws exception about msphpsql

[absci]

The new release should be ready by the end of this week.

[absci]

Hi, I'll be working on the hotfix release.

[David-Engel]

Had a discussion with the team the other day. We'll release a hotfix to accommodate the behavior change made upstream. The original fix needs some adjustment, though. We only release PHP minor-version-specific binaries, so the compile time #if logic needs adjustment. @absci is working on the release.

[qqzm]

Hi,
Is this hotfix available yet? If not, what is the timescale?
How do we install it?

Thanks,
Stephen

[SakiTakamachi]

Thank you for releasing the hotfix!
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule.

I close this issue.

[SakiTakamachi]

@David-Engel
I've opened an issue, so please respond here.
We've been left alone for about a week, so I'm hoping for some response soon.

[SakiTakamachi]

@absci
Thank you. This is truly great news.

[David-Engel]

removing the ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES attribute

That should work for you, too, since that's the source of the issue being fixed. 👍

[youkidearitai]

@David-Engel Upstream(php-src) rejected to your opinion and we should fight to Microsoft pressure. You should release new version that include this PR.
related: php/php-src#12038

[SakiTakamachi]

@David-Engel
I understand the situation. Thank you very much for your efforts in implementing the hotfix.

I am very relieved to receive this news.
We are looking forward to the release.

[youkidearitai]

@absci
@David-Engel
Thanks very much for moving forward and I'm sorry to using strong words.

[agould]

I see 5.11.1 has been released to fix this.

Will there also be a 5.10.x release that resolves this issue? My company is unfortunately stuck on SQL Server 2012 so I cannot use 5.11.x.

[David-Engel]

Will there also be a 5.10.x release that resolves this issue? My company is unfortunately stuck on SQL Server 2012 so I cannot use 5.11.x.

@agould

There are no plans to backport the change to 5.10.

Have you tried 5.11 against SQL Server 2012? Since most of the functionality is in the underlying ODBC driver and we haven't made significant changes from 5.10 to 5.11, I would be surprised if 5.11 didn't work fine against it. I realize 5.11 doesn't technically "support" SQL 2012, but that's mainly because we stop testing against SQL versions that are out of support.

[agould]

@David-Engel Thanks for the response. I have not tried 5.11. I will give it a try in one of our test environments.

One thing I did try this morning was removing the ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES attribute:

$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
//$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES, false);
$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE, true);
$dbh->setAttribute(PDO::SQLSRV_ATTR_QUERY_TIMEOUT, 60);

We'd been using the first two lines since we used MySQL/MariaDB, prior to moving to SQL Server about 5 years ago, so I never thought to revisit these attributes as they just worked.

Without the ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES, I don't see any negative affects. Seems the SQLSRV_ATTR_FETCHES_NUMERIC_TYPE attribute handles what we need.