dbf2pg - Insert xBase-style .dbf-files into a PostgreSQL-table

There is an option "-s oldname=newname", which changes the old field name of
  the dbf-file to the newname in PostgeSQL. If the length of the new name is 0,
  the field is skiped. If you want to skip the first field of the dbf-file,
  you get the wildest error-messages from the backend.
  dbf2pg load the dbf-file via "COPY tablename FROM STDIN". If you skip the
  first field, it is an \t to much in STDIN.

A fix could be an counter j=0, which increments only, if a field is imported
(IF (strlen(fields[h].db_name)> 0) j++. And only if j > 1 (if an other field is
imported) the \t is printed.

An other small bug in the README:
-s start
              Specify  the  first record-number in the xBase-file
              we will insert.
should be
-e start
              Specify  the  first record-number in the xBase-file
              we will insert.

Thomas Behr

contrib/dbase/README.dbf2pg

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 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
+       [-h   host]   [-s  oldname=[newname][,oldname=[newname]]]  [-b
        start] [-e end] [-W] [-U username]  [-B	transaction_size]
        [-F charset_from [-T charset_to]]
 
@@ -70,15 +70,19 @@ DESCRIPTION
 dbf2sql(1L)					      dbf2sql(1L)
 
 
-       -s oldname=newname[,oldname=newname]
+       -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
+	      keywords.  When the new fieldname is empty, the field
+	      is skipped in both the CREATE-clause and the
+	      INSERT-clauses, in common words: it will not be present
+	      in the SQL-table.
+		  Example:
+	      -s SELECT=SEL,remark=,COMMIT=doit
 	      This is done  before  the  -f  operator  has  taken
 	      effect!
 
-       -s start
+       -b start
 	      Specify  the  first record-number in the xBase-file
 	      we will insert.