FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

> Brian,

> That's all I needed. I hadn't realised that tds_client_msg was callable
> from elsewhere than token.c I can see that other bits call it now.
> 
> I'm just trying to make freebcp more production worthy - so when I hit a
> conversion error (processing a character file and finding nonsense in a
> date field for example), I can make sure an appropriate error message is
> out put...
> 
> This is an example of "real" bcp hitting bad data...

[snip]

Ok, you can either force tds_convert_*() to take a TDSSOCKET or you can
trigger this behaviour in bcp.c, although I suspect you'll have already
lost the reason (overflow, illegal, etc...) at that point.  Just be sure
to check for the NULL case before calling tds_client_msg() cause it can
happen.

> I'm just trying to reproduce this behaviour...
>
> Bill

Brian