Re: bcp_bind vartype = 0

craigberry <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
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On Jun 21, 2010, at 01:03 PM, Gil Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:

> In Sybase, setting the bcp_bind vartype parameter to 0 tells it not to perform any conversion on the datatype.

FWIW, Microsoft documents the same behavior:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131401.aspx
 
> 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.

It looks like a bug. dbconvert() does have special handling for the source type and destination type being the same, and since this is really a subset of that, it could probably be added to it.  It might be as simple as saying

    if (!srctype) srctype = desttype;

somewhere near the top of dbconvert().
 
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