"unknown property" error setting format and width in .monetdb file

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2013-01-07 04:22:37 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>
To: clients devs <>
Version: 11.13.7 (Oct2012-SP2)

Last updated: 2013-02-19 13:17:57 +0100

Comment 18318

Date: 2013-01-07 04:22:37 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091114 Firefox/3.5.4
Build Identifier:

If you create a .monetdb file with a width setting, e.g.,

width=-1

mclient gives this error message:

.monetdb:1: unknown property: width

The setting actually works, but the error message appears on the screen. The same happens for format.

I have a patch that fixes it (and also adds a database parameter in case you'd care to do that :).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. add width= to .monetdb
2. start mclient

Actual Results:

.monetdb:1: unknown property: width

is displayed

Expected Results:

For nothing to be displayed.

I've observed this on Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, but it should be an issue on all platforms. This patch resolves the issue. It also adds a database parameter

--- mclient.c.orig 2012-12-12 07:00:35.000000000 -0500
+++ mclient.c 2013-01-06 21:54:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -2788,9 +2788,14 @@
}
} else if (strcmp(buf, "format") == 0) {
output = strdup(q);

•                           q = NULL;
  

•                   } else if (strcmp(buf, "database") == 0) {
  

•                           dbname = strdup(q);     /* leak */
  

•                           q = NULL;
                    } else if (strcmp(buf, "width") == 0) {
                            pagewidth = atoi(q);
                            pagewidthset = pagewidth != 0;
  

•                           q = NULL;
                    }
                    if (q != NULL)
                            mnstr_printf(stderr_stream,
  

Comment 18319

Date: 2013-01-07 04:25:10 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>

Created attachment 167
Patch to mclient which resolves the issue, and adds a database parameter

Attached file: mclient.patch (text/plain, 567 bytes)
Description: Patch to mclient which resolves the issue, and adds a database parameter

Comment 18336

Date: 2013-01-15 16:14:23 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

This bug occurs to the Oct2012 branch only. It does not occur in the Feb2013 branch.

Comment 18509

Date: 2013-02-19 13:17:57 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Feb2013 has been released.