FreeTDS Development Group

[Cedric ROUVRAIS <cedric.rouvrais AT sgcib.com>]

Hi,

Having a var to emulate one or the other could be worthwhile investigating.
Right now, I haven't done that, but why not. Need to give it some thought.

Both ways, it's my PoV, I do not commit on this project, so don't loose
sleep over this :o)

a++ Cedric



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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
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