[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr and reserved words

[Even Rouault]

Hi Ivan,

>
> Is there any trick to avoid creating field names with reserved words? For
> example, a DBF from a shapefile can have field names like "long" and other
> formats may not like it.

It is up to the output driver to do whatever sanitizing it requires. This is
already done in a lot of drivers. The last recollection I have is in the FGBD
driver that modifies field names that match a list of reserved keywords. The
shapefile driver will also truncate too long field names, etc.. A bunch of RDBM
drivers have a LAUNDER creation option too. etc etc.

I suspect your question might be related to the OCI driver ? Perhaps it should
do something like the above if needed.

ogr2ogr is able to deal with drivers that have an implementation of
CreateField() that does a renaming/truncation/etc... of the source field name.

You also have the possibility to use the AS capability of OGR SQL to do the
renaming manually.

>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan
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