I don't know where you got that 1.16 distribution from because the diff does not make sense against 1.16 code at that point which already contains:

          case SQL_VARBINARY:
          case SQL_BINARY:
            fbh->ftype = SQL_C_BINARY;
            break;
#if defined(WITH_UNICODE)
          case SQL_WCHAR:
          case SQL_WVARCHAR:
            fbh->ftype = SQL_C_WCHAR;
            /* MS SQL returns bytes, Oracle returns characters ... */
            fbh->ColDisplaySize*=sizeof(WCHAR);
            fbh->ColLength*=sizeof(WCHAR);
            break;
#endif /* WITH_UNICODE */

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However, the salient point of it is setting ColDisplaySize.

The reason why it is not in DBD::ODBC is no one has told the current maintainer about it - namely me - I just came across this thread. This will be included in 1.17.

In reply to Re^2: dbix::simple & varbinary(MAX) by mje
in thread dbix::simple & varbinary(MAX) by Lyndley

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