FreeTDS Development Group

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

I'm trying to send the contents of a file as a parameter to a stored
procedure using latest DBD::ODBC and CVS HEAD.  I can send COPYING.LIB
(25,265 bytes).  I cannot send ChangeLog-2004 (99,533 bytes).  The script
aborts without an error.  

To test, I'm using samples/odbc_rpc.pl.  (The argument can have the form
":FILE:filename".)  My procedure is on SQL Server 2000 and looks like
this:

        CREATE proc xmltest @input text 
        as 
        select datalength(@input) as 'nbytes received'

I'm binding to SQL_LONGVARCHAR.  I tried binding to SQL_BINARY and
SQL_BLOB, but got errors (about "rebinding", go figure).  I don't know if
there's a hard limit to SQL_LONGVARCHAR.  

If someone can get this to work for "large" files, or tell me why it
can't, I'd be grateful.  I suspect it's an error in FreeTDS, although I
haven't been able to find it.  

--jkl

P.S. You might ask why anyone would want to do this.  Sending XML text as
a parameter lets you use Microsoft's groovy XML parser to convert your
tagged data into tabular data.  If you're loading a database, it saves
having a target BCP table for every XML file you ever receive. 

P.P.S: the last 30 lines of the TDSDUMP log follow:

$ tail -30 dump
odbc.c:1451:_SQLAllocStmt(0x81d8400, 0x8200c10)
odbc.c:4166:SQLGetStmtAttr(0x81fb700, 10010, 0xbfbfec7c, 4, 0x0)
odbc.c:4166:SQLGetStmtAttr(0x81fb700, 10011, 0xbfbfec7c, 4, 0x0)
odbc.c:4166:SQLGetStmtAttr(0x81fb700, 10012, 0xbfbfec7c, 4, 0x0)
odbc.c:4166:SQLGetStmtAttr(0x81fb700, 10013, 0xbfbfec7c, 4, 0x0)
odbc.c:4211:SQLPrepare(0x81fb700, {? = call xmltest (?)}, 22)
odbc.c:3932:SQLFreeStmt(0x81fb700, 3)
odbc.c:3853:_SQLFreeStmt(0x81fb700, 3, 0)
odbc.c:1272:SQLBindParameter(0x81fb700, 1, 2, 1, 12, 27, 1, 0x81fcca0, 27,
0x80519b0)
odbc.c:1173:_SQLBindParameter(0x81fb700, 1, 2, 1, 12, 27, 1, 0x81fcca0,
27, 0x80519b0)
odbc.c:1272:SQLBindParameter(0x81fb700, 2, 1, 1, -1, 99533, 32767,
0x817ef00, 99533, 0x817ef30)
odbc.c:1173:_SQLBindParameter(0x81fb700, 2, 1, 1, -1, 99533, 32767,
0x817ef00, 99533, 0x817ef30)
odbc.c:3296:SQLExecute(0x81fb700)
sql2tds.c:150:type=-1
sql2tds.c:156:trace
odbc.c:5930:SQLParamData(0x81fb700, 0xbfbfef00) [param_num 2,
param_data_called = 0]
odbc.c:5973:SQLPutData(0x81fb700, 0x82ff000, 99533)
prepare_query.c:257:continue_parse_prepared_query with parameter 2
odbc.c:5930:SQLParamData(0x81fb700, 0xbfbfef00) [param_num 2,
param_data_called = 1]
error.c:611:SQLGetDiagRec(3, 0x81fb700, 1, 0xbfbfe910, 0xbfbfe908,
0xbfbfe920, 512, 0xbfbfe90c)
odbc.c:4636:SQLGetConnectOption(0x81d8400, 102, 0xbfbfef08)
odbc.c:4551:_SQLGetConnectAttr(0x81d8400, 102, 0xbfbfef08, 256, 0x0)
odbc.c:2057:SQLDisconnect(0x81d8400)
odbc.c:3853:_SQLFreeStmt(0x81fb700, 1, 1)
mem.c:563:tds_free_all_results()
util.c:162:Changed query state from IDLE to DEAD
odbc.c:3764:SQLFreeHandle(2, 0x0x81d8400)
odbc.c:3790:_SQLFreeConnect(0x81d8400)
odbc.c:3764:SQLFreeHandle(1, 0x0x8202880)
odbc.c:3828:_SQLFreeEnv(0x8202880)