[Bucardo-general] bucardo fails to replicate when the column name contains german umlauts

[Alex Balashov]

Yes, but this works:

CREATE TABLE x (
         übergang        varchar(32) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL
);

evariste=> INSERT INTO x (übergang) VALUES('Ausgezeichnet!');
INSERT 0 1

-- Alex

On 09/02/2013 04:53 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote:

> Alex Balashov wrote:
>> That's really odd.  Are Perl strings not 8-bit clean by default?  I
>> wouldn't have thought...
>
> I would suggest this is more likely to be an issue with PostgreSQL
> rather than perl (though I am guessing.)
>
> You get similar problems with using capital letters for column names...
> PostgreSQL will ignore the case unless the column name is enclosed in
> quotes...
>
> CREATE TABLE testtable
> (
>    id integer primary key,
>    host_ip inet NOT NULL,
>    Prufsumme character varying(255) NOT NULL
> );
>
> INSERT INTO testtable VALUES (1, '192.168.1.1', 'foobar');
>
> Will succeed.
>
> INSERT INTO testtable (id, host_ip, "Prufsumme") VALUES (1,
> '192.168.1.1', 'foobar');
>
> Will also succeed.
>
> INSERT INTO testtable (id, host_ip, Prufsumme) VALUES (1, '192.168.1.1',
> 'foobar');
>
> Will fail.
>
> INSERT INTO testtable (id, host_ip, prufsumme) VALUES (1, '192.168.1.1',
> 'foobar');
>
> Will succeed on *some* versions of PostgreSQL (but should fail on all).
>
> Michelle
>
>>
>> On 09/02/2013 04:33 AM, Christian Ritter wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i have a really strange problem with bucardo and german umlauts.
>>> If you have a table where a column name contains german umlauts bucardo
>>> is unable to replicate the data.
>>>
>>> Bucardo version is 4.5.0 and postgres version is 9.1.9 or 9.2.1
>>>
>>> If you create a table like that on both databases:
>>>
>>> CREATE TABLE testtable
>>> (
>>>      id integer primary key,
>>>       host_ip inet NOT NULL,
>>>      prüfsumme character varying(255) NOT NULL
>>> );
>>>
>>>
>>> and then add some data to that table, like:
>>>
>>> INSERT INTO testtable VALUES (1, '192.168.1.1', 'foobar');
>>>
>>>
>>> bucardo fails to replicate it and you get an error:
>>>
>>> KID [1/1] public.testtable INSERT source to target pk 1
>>> KID Warning! Aborting due to exception for public.testtable.id: 1 Error
>>> was DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR:  null value in column "prüfsumme"
>>> violates not-null constraint at /root/perl5/lib/perl5/Bucardo.pm line
>>> 5769.
>>> KID Final database backend PID is 10758
>>>
>>> It looks like bucardo tries to insert NULL and not foobar into the
>>> column called "prüfsumme" which of course breaks the NOT NULL
>>> constraint.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> complete log of db creation and bucardo install is here:
>>> http://pastebin.com/Q8KV06jA
>>>
>>> log.bucardo could be found here:
>>> http://pastebin.com/TyCbn8mz
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Christian
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>>
>>
>
>


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