Re: problems with dbf-files

I tried that program quite a while back and it didn't work at all...not
even close.

I export the dbf tables to tab-delimited text files and COPY them into a
Pg table.

--Jeremy

On Wednesday, March 15, 102, at 06:46 AM, Ladislav Jirsa wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I run postgreSQL-7.2 on RedHat Linux 7.2, kernel 2.4. I want to import
> and export dbf-tables in and from postgres. I found pg2xbase library
> that requires xbase library. After installation, the conversion does not
> work (segmentation fault, exports empty tables, distortion of numeric
> fields in import). My questions are:
>
> 1) Did I overlook any switch or parameter to ./configure the postgres?
> 2) The pg2xbase recommends the xbase-1.8.1 which I cannot find. I use
> xbase-2.0.0. Too many zeros, can it be a problem? Can I get xbase-1.8.1.
> somewhere?
> 3) Does anybody know a better (more stable...) way of import/export of
> dbf-tables?
>
> Thank you for any tips.
>
> Ladislav Jirsa
>
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