FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

Jim, 

There's a couple of issues with this.

1) I never fully figured out how this part of the protocol was supposed to
work. remember the bcp protocol in tds 7/8 is completely different from
4.2/5
2) when we read data from the host data file we malloc enough storage to
hold the data it's going to read. I work out how much to malloc by getting
the column size from the server.
in sql 7/2000, the server tells me for text/image I need 2Gb, which I
merrily try and malloc. The holes in my logic are obvious for all to see....

in essence then, its best to say that if the TDS protocol is 7 or 8 we
should say that this functionality is unavailable (for the time being
anyway)

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [SMTP:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:27 PM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] RE: freetds from cvs on cygwin - make check - 2
> tes t fa iled
> 
> > From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> > Sent: October 16, 2002 11:59 AM
> > 
> > t0017 fails because we don't yet support bcp in of text/image 
> > data into sql server 2k
> 
> Bill, 
> 
> We shouldn't fail if we can't succeed.  Unittests should warn (and not
> fail)
> if certain functionality isn't available on certain platforms, and the
> documentation should reflect those limitations.  
> 
> Toward that end, would you remind me, please, what the limitation is?  TDS
> 7.0, TDS 8.0, or SQL Server 2000?  
> 
> Thanks and regards, 
> 
> --jkl
> 
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