FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Christos Zoulas [mailto:christos AT zoulas.com]
> Sent: November 5, 2003 2:07 PM

Thanks for the patches, Christos!  

> 1. In c++ you cannot use cs_config() and typedef struct cs_config

FreeTDS has been compiled by a few C++ compilers.  I wonder why this never
cropped up before.  

> 2. constify server name

This raises a philosophical issue.  Sybase's published description of, say,
ct_connect doesn't specify any const parameters.  Granted, that's
old-fashioned.  But we match them slavishly.  

Should we constify everything we can?  Should there be a nonconst option in
pursuit of --enable-sybase-compat?  If we do that, should we convert all the
stupid #defines to enums, as Bjarne intended?  

If it were up to me, I'd say "yes" to the above.  Damn the torpedos, better
code ahead, say I. But I'm betting others have more experience than I do
with portability and compatibility.  I'd like to hear from them first.  

> PS: BCP writes don't work?

It does:

$ freebcp testdb..systypes out systypes.txt -c -S$S -U$U -P$P

Starting copy...

firstrow = 0 row_of_query = 29 rows written 29
29 rows copied.

What does the "create table" statement look like for your failed trial?  

--jkl
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