[freetds] native bcp broken

Frediano Ziglio freddyz77 at tin.it
Tue Jan 6 09:12:26 EST 2004


Il mar, 2004-01-06 alle 03:24, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> src/dblib/unittests/bcp.c works, but does not exercise native bcp file
> formats.  
> 
> freebcp fails to load and unload the unit test's table, using -n (native
> file format).  I'm testing rc3 (all Christos's patches to date) on SQL
> Server 7.0.  
> 

It works even on Sybase :) (no core even using ElectricFence)

> Is this fixable for 0.62, or do we punt with a Known Issue?
> 

IMHO the second... I didn't work that much on bcp however I don't like
that much either:
- it should be integrated in libTDS (and Bill has already a patch..)
- as you said we never tested native format (so we don't know how many
bugs we need to fix)
- did we test with iconv??

Also there are a lot of related issues (BCPCOLINFO should be TDSCOLINFO,
how can rewrite conversion and so on...). 

IMO trying to fix current issues will just delay developing... I'd
prefer a 0.63.5 version...

freddy77




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