[Phpmyadmin-devel] Withdrawing bzip2 export / import?

[Marc Delisle]

Hi,
I had a look at this bug [0]. Not being able to completely import a .bz2 
file is serious.

The .bz2 generated by phpMyAdmin (with $cfg['CompressOnFly'] being true 
by default) contains extra headers that are not handled correctly by the 
bzread() function. This happens for export files reaching a certain size.

Curiously, the bunzip2 command handles the file correctly.

Forcing $cfg['CompressOnFly'] to false for .bz2 will only bring us 
memory problems at export time.

I have contacted the author of bzip, asking for an opinion. No answer so 
far after four days.

I see two possible solutions:
- ask users to uncompress / recompress their .bz2 export file before 
importing (not elegant; might be difficult to make this procedure known 
to users)

- withdraw support for exporting/importing in .bz2

[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4221/

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Marc Delisle
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