FreeTDS Development Group

[Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Bob Kline wrote:

> James Lowden wrote:
> 
> > Jim Kilmer wrote:
> > 
> > > Currently, the Sybase module for python (version 0.26) will not even 
> > > compile (for me at least) under freeTDS due to the stub code in
> > > blk.c and various other undefined variables that I can't easily work
> > > around.
> > 
> > I've never heard of Python bindings for FreeTDS. If you do find
> > something, I'd like to add it to the User Guide.
> > 
> > Could you be specific about the bulkcopy functions that don't? As
> > you may know, many for-Sybase things hook up to FreeTDS pretty well,
> > so if it's a matter of completeness of the db-lib interface library,
> > for example, it might be fixable.
> > 
> > I'm also interested in what variables aren't defined. There may be
> > equivalents in FreeTDS that would do the trick.
> > 
> > --jkl
> 
> This won't be a complete list, but here's a start.
> 
> * The symbol CS_CLEAR is not defined (Sybase has it in cspublic.h)
> * The symbol BLK_SENSITIVITY_LBL is missing (bkpublic.h)
> 
> There's also a conflict in an enum declaration with the symbol CANCEL,
> but that's the sort of silliness that you just learn to cope with when
> you're faced with the preprocessing nightmares of C.

Here's a few more missing symbols:

 CS_USHORT
 CS_MSGTYPE
 CS_ORDERBY_COLS
 CS_PACKAGE_CMD
 CS_SEND_DATA_CMD
 CS_CURSOR_DECLARE
 CS_CURSOR_UPDATE
 CS_CURSOR_OPTION
 CS_CURSOR_OPEN
 CS_CURSOR_CLOSE
 CS_CURSOR_ROWS
 CS_CURSOR_DELETE
 CS_CURSOR_DEALLOC
 CS_EXEC_IMMEDIATE
 CS_DESCRIBE_OUTPUT
 CS_COLUMN_DATA
 CS_MSG_CMD

-- 
Bob Kline
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