FreeTDS Development Group

[Konrad J Hambrick <konrad AT payplus.com>]

Cedric ROUVRAIS wrote:
> freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 08/24/2009 06:16:33 PM:
>
> > We are using either freebcp or MS BCP.EXE to automatically
> > upload tens-of-GB of data every night on each of 20+ systems
> > and my vote is for freebcp to work EXACTLY like MS BCP.EXE.
>
> I have ensured that FreeTDS freebcp and bsqldb works exactly as Sybase
> bcp/isql and have fixed bugs in the process because my vote is for freebcp
> to work EXACTLY like Sybase BCP.EXE.
>
> You have a perspective, I have a perspective. Who is right? The one with
> the most developpers and systems? I think you will loose there ;o)
>
> So, for the next release the question of whether or not someone wants to
> look at the changes/fixes remains in the air. The fixes aren't related only
> to the column size issue of freebcp.c as bsqldb.c/bcp.c/dblib.c have been
> changed to for other reasons.
>
> a++ Cedric

Cedric --

Question ... After you have gotten 'as many apps as possible off Sybase ASAP'
will you not want to EXACTLY emulate MS BCP.EXE behaviour ?

How about a compromise ?

Export an environment Varb (say, EMULATE_SYBASE) or an optional command
line flag to override the default MS BCP.EXE behavior ?

That way the Sybase behavior could be optionally invoked as necessary.

-- kjh