FreeTDS Development Group

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

All, 

The "padded out with NULLs" bug was raised a while ago. 
I know that I included a fix for it in my last-batch-of-changes-bar-one, so
it may have gone away by now. 
It was to do with the length returned by dbconvert(). 

If it's still there, I can take a look.

Garbage appended to shorter values. 
Sounds to me like it could be a different symptom of the same problem.

I've just looked , and I can reproduce BOTH problems. 
Unless anyone else wants to take it up, leave it with me. I'll sort them
tomorrow


Looks like I could spend some time on freebcp - sorting out the text fields
issue, getting error handling better and so on. I could also de-dblib the
code so that it can be called from ctlib and odbc...

Bill 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [SMTP:jklowden AT speakeasy.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:30 PM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] Re: need some help with freebcp
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:05:11 -0400 (EDT), "Bob Kline"
> <bkline AT rksystems.com> wrote:
> > I can see
> > some evidence of possible problems that might be related to the
> > difficulties John is experiencing.  For example:
> > 
> >  1. In addition to the tab separator, values are padded out with nulls.
> 
> That's a bug.
> 
> >  2. The tail ends of longer values from earlier rows are carried
> >     forward as garbage appended to shorter values in subsequent rows.
> 
> That's a bad bug.
> 
> > As I say, I'm not intimately familiar with the way Sybase's version is
> > supposed to work, but this doesn't look right to me.
> 
> Ahem.  Methinks thou doest protest too much.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
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