FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Frediano Ziglio [mailto:freddyz77 AT tin.it]
> Sent: August 30, 2002 1:48 AM
> Il ven, 2002-08-30 alle 06:37, James K.Lowden ha scritto:
>
> > Anyone think any of this should be in cvs?
> 
> If this can be converted in an automatic test should be better.
> Why not process an input file and compare results with an 
> output file?

Good idea.  The code and the query need some refinement.  As you did :) I
found convert_acid.c helpful in exercising convert.c.  

> They are unimplemented... broken seem a fault to me...

Acknowledged, missing code isn't broken code.  You understand of course I'm
not blaming anyone.  

> How should we convert to binary/image?
> Should we just do a memcpy or we should swap some bytes before ??

I don't know. I don't use blobs of any kind, and I've never thought about
converting them to anything.  

> Perhaps we can convert numeric -> char -> anytype. Poor 
> performance but better than nothing.

That's acceptable.  Sure, a X -> char -> Y conversion will be slower and
harder to understand than X->Y, but (one of my mottos is) "slow is better
than broken".  The database interface is radically slower than the local
CPU.  I look forward to the day when someone's major complaint about FreeTDS
is that convert.c is too slow.  :)  That would be a Good Problem (tm). 

Regards, 

--jkl


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