Re: Some patches to enhance the contrib build

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 10:49, Martin Pitt wrote:
> The current Debian package has some patches that tweak the building of
> contrib modules. I think they would be interesting for other
> distributions, too. Most of this stuff was contributed by users who
> actually use these modules.

Thanks for letting us know.

BTW, the information in postgresql-7.4.6/debian/copyright is out of date
(old download URL, old PostgreSQL copyright dates & the regex copyright
should be updated per the license in src/backend/regex/COPYRIGHT).

20pg_dump_datestyle seems redundant (we already set DateStyle to ISO in
pg_dump).

> 25contrib-dbmirror:
> - additionally install some useful scripts and data files

Makes sense to me, although I won't claim to be a dbmirror user. I'll
apply this to HEAD unless anyone objects.

> 25contrib-enablexml:
> - enable xml module build
> - Makefile: add CFLAGS for "-I/usr/include/libxml2" to allow building

ISTM the right fix is to use xml2-config.

> 25contrib-enablemysql:
> - enable mysql module build
> - add Makefile
> - fix hashbang of mysql2pgsql
>
> 25contrib-enableoracle:
> - enable oracle module build
> - add Makefile
> - patch ora2pg.pl to look for Ora2Pg.pm additionally in the path
> where ora2pg.pl is installed
>
> 26dbf2pg-errorcheck:
> - add better error checking to dbf2pg
>
> 27dbf2pg-textfield:
> - add dbf2pg support for the dbase field 'M' which corresponds to
> PostgreSQL's TEXT field

I can't find these patches in this diff:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/postgresql/postgresql_7.4.6-2.diff.gz

could you tell me where to find them?

-Neil