FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

I'm seeing a pretty major error with ct_bind and I wanted to see if 
anyone knows why this has slipped by.

According to the ctlib reference manual, when calling ct_bind, the 
datafmt.maxlength is ignored for fixed-length types. We are not doing 
this. Instead, we're returning a CS_FAIL when trying to convert the 
data to the bound type. That's causing most of my Sybase code to not 
work with FreeTDS.

The problems I'm seeing are:

1) there is no function to determine if a data type is a fixed-length type

2) we are using the src_len for the size to copy if it is not larger 
than the destlen.

3) this seems like a lot of work to fix

Am I wrong about (1)? If so, I'll make one, but based on the number 
of items that can very based on if something is fixed length or not 
(in ctlib and at the tds level), I'm really surprised I'm not finding 
such a function.

I'm also planning on fixing ct_command so that if you called 
previously with the CS_MORE option, the new query string is appended 
and doesn't replace the former query string. That seems like another 
big hole.

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