Re: Problem with freebcp and fixed text output [NC]

Hi,

Say you have a file with 100 columns and a table with 10 colums (case for
one of our apps), how do you selectively bcp in the file? With Sybase you
simply do not specify TAB_COLNUM and that column in the file is ignored.

Sample format file (incomplete)

10.0
182
1 SYBCHAR 0 20 ";" 1 id
2 SYBCHAR 0 20 ";"
3 SYBCHAR 0 20 ";" 2 gop

freebcp chokes on the second column (2 SYBCHAR 0 20 ";") and exits whereas
Sybase knows that it just needs to ignore this data, so I am modifying
bcp.c to accomodate this behaviour.

If I understand what you mean

2 SYBCHAR 0 20 ";" 0

would be the appropriate format file and then freebcp would ignore this
field but still bcp the file in?

a++ Cedric



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Cedric ROUVRAIS wrote:
>
> The issue one of my teams reported is that if there is a column in the
> file that does not get imported into the table, then it fails. The
> faulty procedure is _bcp_readfmt_colinfo which fails because TAB_COLNUM
> is not present in that case.
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> Any ideas before I start implementing a fix?

I don't know what you mean by "not present", Cedric.  It's an integer; it
has to be present.

It looks OK to me.  The dbproc->hostfileinfo->host_columns array points to
a memory allocated with calloc(3) in bcp_columns().  By default, then,
ci->tab_colnum should be zero, meaning the field in the file is ignored.

HTH.

--jkl
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