FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

src/dblib/bcp.c:1107:

if (desttype == SYBVARCHAR) {
    bcpcol->data_size = 
        _bcp_rtrim_varchar((char *) bcpcol->data, converted_data_size);
} else {
    bcpcol->data_size = converted_data_size;
}

I ran across what might be a little bug in the above code today.  I was
loading a tab-delimited file; column two in the table was a char(2). 
freebcp was complaining.   (The actual message was bogus iirc, something
about inserting a NULL into a non-null column.)  The real problem was that
the field contained a trailing blank:

        'AR '

You can imagine it took a bit of hunting, because the error file didn't
exactly highlight the space before the tab.  

Microsoft's bcp.exe loaded the file fine, after I DOSified it.  So they
trim the trailing blank for char & varchar fields.  Maybe for everything? 


I wonder how Sybase's utility behaves.  I think I may change the above to
call _bcp_rtrim_varchar() every time.  

Any insights?

--jkl