FreeTDS Development Group

[christos AT zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 5,  3:29pm, LowdenJK AT bernstein.com ("Lowden, James K") wrote:
-- Subject: RE: [freetds] small patches

| Thanks for the patches, Christos!  

You are welcome.

| > 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.  

Are you compiling with gcc and -Wall turned on?

| > 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.  

Sounds good.

| 
| > 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?  

I will send more info when I get some spare cycles!

christos