On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Martin Kersten wrote:

A fix for this bug was checked into the stable branch.

Niels

> Rt Ibmer wrote:
> > I was going crazy trying to figure out why my COPY RECORDS command wasn't 
> > working.  Turns out it is caused from funny (encoded?) characters in the 
> > string for one of the fields.
> >
> > For instance one of the fields contained this "?a?as?e??, 18 ?a??? 2001 
> > 10:24:00 pµ"
> >
> > How did the data get this way? Well I exported it from SQL Server and I 
> > guess that db is set up to store encoded characters.  When I did the export 
> > I told SQL Server to make the file ASCII since I figured that is what COPY 
> > RECORDS expects.  So apparently SQL Server is writing the characters this 
> > way into the string.  Then MonetDB (latest version) cannot handle this.
> >   
> The details of SQL Server side can not be answered.
> MonetDB expects the control characters in the records to be encoded in 
> the C-style, i.e \ddd.
> Using e.g. a  null byte will terminate a line and will cause the parsing 
> of the fields to go astray.
> > So what happens is that the COPY x RECORDS command just returns immediately 
> > after I try this with this data in it.  After that all my SQL statements in 
> > mclient return immediately.  So I can say "select count(*) from foo;" and 
> > it just comes immediately back with the sql> prompt.  So something with 
> > these funny characters sends mclient into a funk.  I have to exit and 
> > restart it to get it going again.
> >
> > Any advice on how to handle this? Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
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