Re: Fwd: Bug#338645: postgresql-contrib-8.1: dbf2pg silently

Patch applied to CVS HEAD and 8.1.X. Thanks.

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Martin Pitt wrote:
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> 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(at)debian(dot)org> -----
>
> Subject: Bug#338645: postgresql-contrib-8.1: dbf2pg silently ignores the -F and -T options
> Reply-To: Emanuele Rocca <ema(at)debian(dot)org>, 338645(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:04:30 +0100
> From: Emanuele Rocca <ema(at)debian(dot)org>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org>
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,
> DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12 autolearn=no version=3.0.3
>
> Package: postgresql-contrib-8.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Hello,
> according to contrib/dbase/Makefile, iconv support for dbf2pg is
> disabled.
> If there is no specific reason to do so, it would be really nice to
> uncomment the PG_CPPFLAGS += -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/dbf2pg.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 = (char *) strdup(optarg);
> break;
> -#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
> case 'F':
> +#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
> charset_from = (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 = (char *) strdup(optarg);
> break;
>
>
>
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