FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il giorno ven, 28-01-2005 alle 16:45 +0000, Thompson, Bill D (London) ha
scritto:
> Freddy,
> 
> Not sure if you've found a bug or not.
> The circumstances where this *might* be needed are obscure to say the
> least.
> If it is to be used, it should be stored in bcp_bind(), from the
> prefixlen parameter to that function, but it doesn't appear to be.
> 
> It would only be needed as follows - taken from the bcp_bind() manual
> page in sybase:
> 
> "prefixlen - The length, in bytes, of any 
>  length prefix this column may have. 
>  For example, strings in some non-C programming 
>  languages are made up of a one-byte length prefix, 
>  followed by the string data itself. 
>  If the data does not have a length prefix, 
>  set prefixlen to 0."
> 
> don't remove the code just yet, if you don't mind.
> 
> Bill
> 

No, I was only checking the use of new fields in TDSCOLUMN. I added your
comment in tds.h. Do you have any patch for BCP ?? I think it would be
fine to see bcp in libTDS it seems there are a lot of duplication in
src/dblib/bcp.c and src/ctlib/blk.c

freddy77