Below is the man pages of "dbf2sql", a utility supplied with the new release of version 7.2 of PostgreSQL.
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dbf2sql(1L) dbf2sql(1L)


NAME
dbf2sql - Insert xBase-style .dbf-files into a Post-
greSQL-table

SYNOPSIS
"dbf2pg [options] dbf-file"
Options:
[-v[v]] [-f] [-u | -l] [-c | -D] [-d database] [-t table]
[-h host] [-s oldname=newname[,oldname=newname]] [-s
start] [-e end] [-W] [-U username] [-B transaction_size]
[-F charset_from [-T charset_to]]


DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the program dbf2pg. It takes
an xBase-style .dbf-file, and inserts it into the speci-
fied database and table.

OPTIONS
-v Display some status-messages.

-vv Also display progress.

-f Convert all field-names from the .dbf-file to low-
ercase.

-u Convert the contents of all fields to uppercase.

-l Convert the contents of all fields to lowercase.

-c Create the table specified with -t. If this table
already exists, first DROP it.

-D Delete the contents of the table specified with -t.
Note that this table has to exists. An error is
returned if this is not the case.

-W Ask for password.

-d database
Specify the database to use. An error is returned
if this database does not exists. Default is
"test".

-t table
Specify the table to insert in. An error is
returned if this table does not exists. Default is
"test".

-h host
Specify the host to which to connect. Default is
"localhost".





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-s oldname=newname[,oldname=newname]
Change the name of a field from oldname to newname.
This is mainly used to avoid using reserved SQL-
keywords. Example:
-s SELECT=SEL,COMMIT=doit
This is done before the -f operator has taken
effect!

-s start
Specify the first record-number in the xBase-file
we will insert.

-e end Specify the last record-number in the xBase-file we
will insert.

-B transaction_size
Specify the number of records per transaction,
default is all records.

-U username
Log as the specified user in the database.

-F charset_from
If specified, it converts the data from the speci-
fied charset. Example:
-F IBM437
Consult your system documentation to see the con-
versions available. This requires iconv to be enabled
in the compile.

-T charset_to
Together with -F charset_from , it converts the
data to the specified charset. Default is
"ISO-8859-1". This requires iconv to be enabled
in the compile.

ENVIRONMENT
This program is affected by the environment-variables as
used by "PostgresSQL." See the documentation of Post-
gresSQL for more info. This program can optionally use iconv
character set conversion routines.

BUGS
Fields larger than 8192 characters are not supported and
could break the program.
Some charset convertions could cause the output to be
larger than the input and could break the program.













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