FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:bill_d_thompson AT ml.com]
> Sent: November 6, 2003 6:43 AM
> 
> 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 agree completely.  It might be easiest to start by "mv dblib/bcp.c
tds/bulkcopy.c" and s/db/tds/.  A lot of what's in that file is support
functions.  

I wouldn't be surprised if the db-lib bcp functions could be written as
calls to the ct-lib ones.   My guess is your tds/bcp.c interface will end up
looking a lot like the cs-blk API.  

> 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 ?

Oh, absolutely!  Who could turn down an offer like that?  Look for it on
Monday.  

> from the looks of what 
> christos is up to, he's using ct-library.

He told me off-line he's using freebcp.  I suspect a datatype problem.  

--jkl
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