Re: freebcp out from MS SQL Server drops spaces [NC]

[email protected] wrote on 07/09/2009 11:33:57 AM:

> On 07/09/2009 09:35 AM, Cedric ROUVRAIS wrote:
> >
>   ... <snip> ...
>
> > */
> >                   if (rows_written % 1000 == 0) {
> >                         printf("%d rows successfully bulk-copied to
> > host-file.\n", rows_written);
> >                   }
>
> Since freebcp supports the -b batchsize option, should the rows_written
> be compared to the const 1000 or to pdata->batchsize ?

Sybase BCP does not take into consideration the batch size for printing to
stdout progress. In other words no matter what value you put for the -b
option, it will always send to stdout every 1000 rows the message "x000
rows successfully bulk-copied to host-file.".


> Should the messages be written to stdout or to stderr (via fprintf( )) ?

Sybase BCP sends to stdout. We don't use this printing in our apps, but
when we manually bcp we appreciate having a progress report on a regular
basis, especially for the very big files.

As for fprintf or printf, I just stuck to the same mecanism used for
"starting copy" and bcp finished.

> On another note, I kinda like having the output supressed ... With that
> in mind, would it make sense to add a -q (be quiet) flag ?

We just redirect stdout to /dev/null :o)

a++ Cedric


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