FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: cathy.lindros AT iff.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:32 PM
> 
> We have installed freetds and are having no problems with tsql.
> However, we can not run freebcp.  Any help would be appreciated.
... 
> The command below was issued which resulted in Segmentation Fault.
> 
> $ freebcp cwb.dbo.costbook out test.dat -U {dbuser_id}  -P {dbpass}
> -S {db_server}  -I /usr/sybase/freeware/freetds/etc/freetds.conf -c 
> Segmentation fault(coredump)
> 
> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (clustered) sp3a
> ...
> 
> CREATE TABLE dbo.CostBook (
> ...
>  comment          [commenttype]       NULL,
> ...
> ) go
> 
> 
> System info ------------------ OS   -   AIX 5.3 Hardware Arch -
> IBM P Series running AIX 5.3
>  freebcp version $Id: freebcp.c,v 1.34.2.1 2005/02/03 09:39:14

There are a couple of possibilities, both of which would be solved by
using a newer version.  (You're using 0.63.)  

If your datafile is more than 2 GB, freebcp will segfault on you.  That
was fixed in January of this year.  

ISTR that bcp had a problem with text data, but I don't find any
specific information about that in our change logs.  It might have been
related to fields of a particular size.  

If you want to stick with the 0.63 branch, it was updated after the
release.  I believe Frediano posted a patch on the Source Forge site, or
it could be contructed from CVS.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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