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

Mark,

But this code in _ct_bind_data should convert the passed (CS_*) datatype to
the a type (SYB*)  that cs_convert understands...

      desttype = _ct_get_server_type(curcol->column_bindtype);

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J. Lilback [SMTP:mark AT lilback.com]
> Sent: 07 March 2003 04:09
> To:   FreeTDS Development Group
> Cc:   James K.Lowden
> Subject:      Re: [freetds] major error with ct_bind
> 
> At 10:53 PM -0500 3/6/2003, James K.Lowden wrote:
> >On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:43:34 -0500, "Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>  1) there is no function to determine if a data type is a fixed-length
> >>  type
> >
> >token.c:static int tds_get_varint_size(int datatype);
> >
> >Will that do?
> 
> No, but the macro is_fixed_type (tds.h) will... cs_convert seems to 
> be using the tds data type values instead of the CS_xxx_TYPE values, 
> so that will work.
> 
> I'm adding a function to return the size of a fixed length, suitable 
> for passing to malloc.
> 
> It is a pretty easy fix if the src_type and dest_type are the same, 
> which in my case, they always are. Otherwise, it goes down to the tds 
> conversion functions, where I'm more hesitant to change things since 
> they can effect dblib and odbc.
> 
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