FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hi James,

With respect to the bcp question, from the looks of what christos is up to,
he's using ct-library.
As you know, the BCP functionality isn't in ct-library.....yet.

This isn't too difficult to achieve - the ct-library bcp functions map
almost exactly to the db-library ones.
but we need to move the code into a common library. 

I'd suggest we do it like convert - we have the bcp stuff in its own C file
in the tds library, invoked from db-library and ct-library.
Any header stuff could go in tds.h, or maybe its own header file...

I'll take this on, as part of my ct-library work.

If you agree, could you create a stub C file in src/tds and do the necessary
makefile/etc integration ?

Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [SMTP:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Sent: 05 November 2003 20:30
> To:   'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject:      RE: [freetds] small patches
> 
> > 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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