Fwd: Bug#338645: postgresql-contrib-8.1: dbf2pg silently ignores the -F and -T options

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>
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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;

----- End forwarded message -----

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