Hi PostgreSQL developers!
I recently received the Debian bug report below about missing iconv
support for the dbf2pg contrib module.
The submitter created a patch which replaces the silent ignoring of -F
(when iconv support is disabled) with a meaningful warning.
Do you consider applying this upstream?
Thanks!
Martin
----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> -----
Subject: Bug#338645: postgresql-contrib-8.1: dbf2pg silently ignores the -F=
and -T options
Reply-To: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>, 338645@bugs.debian.org
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:04:30 +0100
From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
X-Spam-Status: No, score=3D0.7 required=3D4.0 tests=3DAWL,BAYES_50,
DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12 autolearn=3Dno version=3D3.0.3
Package: postgresql-contrib-8.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
according to contrib/dbase/Makefile, iconv support for dbf2pg is=20
disabled.
If there is no specific reason to do so, it would be really nice to
uncomment the PG_CPPFLAGS +=3D -DHAVE_ICONV_H line, so that dbf2pg can
convert charsets properly.
Moreover, the user is not informed about lack of iconv support, and that
causes a lot of problems trying to understand why there is no charset
conversion even passing -F (and -T) to the command line. :)
The attached patch prints a warning if there is no iconv support and the
user passes the -F option.
Thanks!
--- /home/ema/debian/postgresql-8.1-8.1.0/postgresql-8.1.0/contrib/dbase/db=
f2pg.c 2005-10-15 04:49:04.000000000 +0200
+++ dbf2pg.c 2005-11-11 19:43:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -618,10 +618,14 @@
case 'U':
username =3D (char *) strdup(optarg);
break;
-#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
case 'F':
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
charset_from =3D (char *) strdup(optarg);
+#else
+ printf("WARNING: dbf2pg was compiled without iconv support, ignoring -=
F option\n");
+#endif
break;
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
case 'T':
charset_to =3D (char *) strdup(optarg);
break;
----- End forwarded message -----
--=20
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