Tom, where are we on this patch? Seems we need to do something.
Here is the thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-05/msg00008.php
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Boris van Schooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Don't know anything about nulls in dbf though. I am not a dbase expert, I
> > just run into dbfs often when trying to enter gis data into postgis.
>
> I'm considering the following patch, which turns around the test: check
> for an empty string and if so believe it's a null, otherwise just insert
> the value as-is. I dunno if the check for null is actually meaningful,
> but I doubt this will break any cases that worked before. Comments anyone?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
> Index: contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.21
> diff -c -r1.21 dbf2pg.c
> *** contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c 14 Sep 2004 03:28:28 -0000 1.21
> --- contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c 4 May 2005 17:55:29 -0000
> ***************
> *** 63,93 ****
> char *convert_charset(char *string);
> #endif
> void usage(void);
> - unsigned int isinteger(char *);
>
>
> -
> - unsigned int
> - isinteger(char *buff)
> - {
> - char *i = buff;
> -
> - while (*i != '\0')
> - {
> - if (i == buff)
> - if ((*i == '-') ||
> - (*i == '+'))
> - {
> - i++;
> - continue;
> - }
> - if (!isdigit((unsigned char) *i))
> - return 0;
> - i++;
> - }
> - return 1;
> - }
> -
> static inline void
> strtoupper(char *string)
> {
> --- 63,70 ----
> ***************
> *** 471,478 ****
> /* handle the date first - liuk */
> if (fields[h].db_type == 'D')
> {
> ! if ((strlen(foo) == 8) &&
> isinteger(foo))
> {
> snprintf(pgdate, 11,
> "%c%c%c%c-%c%c-%c%c",
> foo[0],
> foo[1], foo[2], foo[3],
> foo[4],
> foo[5], foo[6], foo[7]);
> --- 448,462 ----
> /* handle the date first - liuk */
> if (fields[h].db_type == 'D')
> {
> ! if (strlen(foo) == 0)
> {
> + /* assume empty string means a
> NULL */
> + strcat(query, "\\N");
> + }
> + else if (strlen(foo) == 8 &&
> + strspn(foo,
> "0123456789") == 8)
> + {
> + /* transform YYYYMMDD to
> Postgres style */
> snprintf(pgdate, 11,
> "%c%c%c%c-%c%c-%c%c",
> foo[0],
> foo[1], foo[2], foo[3],
> foo[4],
> foo[5], foo[6], foo[7]);
> ***************
> *** 480,505 ****
> }
> else
> {
> ! /*
> ! * empty field must be inserted
> as NULL value in
> ! * this way
> ! */
> ! strcat(query, "\\N");
> }
> }
> ! else if ((fields[h].db_type == 'N') &&
> ! (fields[h].db_dec == 0))
> {
> ! if (isinteger(foo))
> ! strcat(query, foo);
> ! else
> {
> strcat(query, "\\N");
> - if (verbose)
> - fprintf(stderr,
> "Illegal numeric value found "
> - "in
> record %d, field \"%s\"\n",
> - i,
> fields[h].db_name);
> }
> }
> else
> {
> --- 464,482 ----
> }
> else
> {
> ! /* try to insert it as-is */
> ! strcat(query, foo);
> }
> }
> ! else if (fields[h].db_type == 'N')
> {
> ! if (strlen(foo) == 0)
> {
> + /* assume empty string means a
> NULL */
> strcat(query, "\\N");
> }
> + else
> + strcat(query, foo);
> }
> else
> {
>
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