- Adjusted the pyodbc dialect such that bound

    values are passed as bytes and not unicode
    if the "Easysoft" unix drivers are detected.
    This is the same behavior as occurs with
    FreeTDS.  Easysoft appears to segfault
    if Python unicodes are passed under
    certain circumstances.

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 345447674..9eeeb725a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
 =======
 CHANGES
 =======
+0.7.2
+=====
+- mssql
+  - Adjusted the pyodbc dialect such that bound
+    values are passed as bytes and not unicode
+    if the "Easysoft" unix drivers are detected. 
+    This is the same behavior as occurs with
+    FreeTDS.  Easysoft appears to segfault
+    if Python unicodes are passed under
+    certain circumstances.
+
 0.7.1
 =====
 - general
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
index 5da63c9af..cf7ebd22c 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/__init__.py
@@ -117,6 +117,6 @@ from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine, engine_from_config
 __all__ = sorted(name for name, obj in locals().items()
                  if not (name.startswith('_') or inspect.ismodule(obj)))
 
-__version__ = '0.7.1'
+__version__ = '0.7.2'
 
 del inspect, sys
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/pyodbc.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/pyodbc.py
index 3f6d6cb5f..ea4810df7 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/pyodbc.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/connectors/pyodbc.py
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ class PyODBCConnector(Connector):
     # if the freetds.so is detected
     freetds = False
 
+    # will be set to True after initialize()
+    # if the libessqlsrv.so is detected
+    easysoft = False
+
     @classmethod
     def dbapi(cls):
         return __import__('pyodbc')
@@ -98,15 +102,17 @@ class PyODBCConnector(Connector):
 
         dbapi_con = connection.connection
 
-        self.freetds = bool(re.match(r".*libtdsodbc.*\.so", 
-                            dbapi_con.getinfo(pyodbc.SQL_DRIVER_NAME)
+        _sql_driver_name = dbapi_con.getinfo(pyodbc.SQL_DRIVER_NAME)
+        self.freetds = bool(re.match(r".*libtdsodbc.*\.so", _sql_driver_name
+                            ))
+        self.easysoft = bool(re.match(r".*libessqlsrv.*\.so", _sql_driver_name
                             ))
 
         # the "Py2K only" part here is theoretical.
         # have not tried pyodbc + python3.1 yet.
         # Py2K
-        self.supports_unicode_statements = not self.freetds
-        self.supports_unicode_binds = not self.freetds
+        self.supports_unicode_statements = not self.freetds and not self.easysoft
+        self.supports_unicode_binds = not self.freetds and not self.easysoft
         # end Py2K
 
         # run other initialization which asks for user name, etc.