C-string termination

[zhkvia]

I've noticed that sometimes, after SQLGetData call, alloc_buffer becomes dirty in a sense that it's not properly terminated by the \x00 character. Because of that, when you want to decode a string (let's say, it's encoded in utf-8), after truncating it by the \x00 character, you get not only a desired string but also a part of a previous string that was written to the same buffer and a decoding process may fail.

Here's a quick fix for that: PR

UPD:
OSes I use: Linux / macOS
ODBC Driver: unixODBC

[braian87b]

Excelent, 'sometimes' in which cases? have you find on which cases or it is a random like issue?
Are you still using unixODBC or have you tried the official Microsoft ODCB Driver for Linux / Mac https://github.com/jiangwen365/pypyodbc/wiki/How-to-use-pypyodbc-on-MacOS-OSX