FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried strace'ing/truss'ing tsql when it reads an 
> input file?
> > Using readline(3), it issues a read(2) per character, not 
> counting the large
> > number of failed ioctl(2)'s in the beginning.
> 
> Can't say that I have, but I'm not too surprised to hear that 
> it could 
> be more efficient.
> 
> > We have the code in tsql to
> > do the readline, why not just use it when we are not 
> connected to the tty?
> > This way, in the future, when readline(3) decides to do 
> something else bogus
> > with the input stream we are not going to be affected.
> 
> I don't think readline(3) just decided to do this.  
> readline(3) has been 
> doing tab completion for as long as I can remember.  I'm not 
> aware of a 
> history of surprising behavior changes in readline(3).  So, 
> as for any 
> future unexpected behavior changes, I'm inclined to worry 
> about it when 
> it happens instead of worrying about it now.
> 
> I personally don't like the idea of switching to a different 
> readline(3) 
> implementation based on whether the terminal is a tty or not. 
>  It will 
> cause surprising and stupid behavior, like my SQL input mysteriously 
> failing if it contains a line longer than 1024 characters.
> 

I applied the patch also cause the 1024 limit where here even for
systems that do not have readline. I think tsql is evolving from it's
"utility to test FreeTDS connections and queries". Reading from ML seems
that 50% and more use tsql for small scripts.

freddy77