[mdb-dev] Command line option to suppress binary data

[Alfonso Muñoz-P. F. <alf...@vt...>]

Hi again.

In the database we’re migrating from Access to PostgreSQL we have some 
fields which contain binary data. They’re used for replication so they 
can be safely ignored for the migration process. The issue is that there 
are certain rows in which these binary fields may contain escape 
sequences which break the import to PostgreSQL. I’ve added a command 
line option (-B) to skip binary data with blank fields.

I don’t know if this is a known issue and if such a workaround would be 
welcome.

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Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei
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