Bug in *report with -fp

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Mar 7 17:17:17 PST 2007


There's a bug in dreport and rreport as late as 5.0.14R4 (Linux in this
case).

If you specify "-fp tablename" on the command line, and the table does not
exist, it does not complain in any way, shape, or form.  It acts as if it
just did a sane job of running.

Further compounding the confusion was an attempt to use -db with dreport
and finding nothing wrong, yet having "nothing happen"...mostly because
there was no processing to debug--which it doesn't warn you about.

Not sure if this has been fixed in 5.6 or not, but anyone using 5.0.14 or
earlier should beware.

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