FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2010/6/21 Gil Rohde <grohde AT yahoo.com>:
> In Sybase, setting the bcp_bind vartype parameter to 0 tells it not to 
> perform any conversion on the datatype. With freetds this seems to cause a 
> failure since it attempts to convert it with dbconvert and doesn't 
> recognize a source type of 0.
>
> Is this a known and recognized difference or bug?  It looks like one way to 
> handle this is to modify dbconvert to treat a source type of 0 as the same 
> as the dest type.
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts and comments on this.
>
> Gil

Yes, I found same documentation. We can say it's a missing (unknown
till now) implementation or a bug... it depends from the point of view
:)

Frediano