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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Rows truncated at 176 chars when using CT-Lib interface
  • Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:21:09 +0200

2009/4/27 Alejandro Guerrieri <alejandro.guerrieri AT gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> This is my first post to the list. I've started playing with FreeTDS a few
> days ago, and I'm having some issues getting more than 176 characters back
> using the ct-lib interface.
>
> The code fragment I'm pasting below works fine when the data does not exceed
> 176 bytes, but anything over that value gets truncated. The fields I'm
> retrieving are VARCHAR(255) and VARCHAR(4000) (it doesn't matter the size,
> the problem occurs anyways).
>
> Maybe I'm doing something really stupid (these are my first attempts at
> coding with FreeTDS and ct-lib, and I found Sybase docs a little cryptic on
> the "examples" side).
>
> I'm using Mac OSX Leopard with gcc 4.0.1. and FreeTDS 0.82 (tried with the
> MacPorts version and also compiling it myself from code downloaded from the
> FreeTDS site. Same results).
>
> Does anybody knows what I'm doing wrong? I don't believe this is a bug, I
> guess somebody would have noticed before me (I did my homework and googled
> around for similar problems, to no avail).
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Alex
>
> ....
>
> struct data_s {
>
>  CS_CHAR *data;
>
>  CS_DATAFMT format;
>
>  CS_INT size;
>
>  CS_SMALLINT ind;
>
> };
>
> struct data_s *data;
>
> .....
>

I'm interested on how you send the query. Did you issue a prepared
query? Please post missing code

> while((ret = ct_results(conn->command, &res_type)) == CS_SUCCEED)
>
> {
>
>  switch (res_type)
>
>  {
>
>  case CS_ROW_RESULT:
>
>    if (ct_res_info(conn->command, CS_NUMDATA, (CS_INT *)&columns,
>
>      CS_UNUSED, NULL) != CS_SUCCEED) {
>
>      error(0, "Error fetching attributes");
>
>      return -1;
>
>    }
>
>    data = malloc(sizeof(struct data_s)*columns);
>
>    for (i = 0; i < columns; i++) {
>
>      if (ct_describe(conn->command, i+1, &data[i].format) != CS_SUCCEED) {
>
>        error(0, "Error fetching column description");
>
>        free(data);
>
>        return -1;
>
>      }
>
>      data[i].format.maxlength++;
>
>      data[i].data = malloc(data[i].format.maxlength);
>
>      data[i].size = data[i].format.maxlength;
>
>      data[i].format.format = CS_FMT_NULLTERM;
>
>      ct_bind(conn->command, i+1, &data[i].format, &data[i].data,
>
>        &data[i].size, &data[i].ind);
>
>      fprintf(stderr, "Col %d\tSize: %d\tMaxlen %d\n", i,
>
>        data[i].size, data[i].format.maxlength);
>
>    }
>
>    while(((ret = ct_fetch(conn->command, CS_UNUSED, CS_UNUSED,
>
>      CS_UNUSED, &count)) == CS_SUCCEED) || (ret == CS_ROW_FAIL)) {
>
>      if( ret == CS_ROW_FAIL ) {
>
>        fprintf(stderr, "** Error on row %d in this fetch batch.\n",
> count+1);
>
>      } else {
>
>      for (i=0;i<columns;i++) {
>
>        fprintf(stdout, "[%d:%d:%s]\n", i,
>
>          strlen((char *)&data[i].data), &data[i].data);
>
>      }
>
>    }
>
>  }
>
>  case ...
> }
> ....

freddy77




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