Problems retrieving and inserting references

Hello.

Since a while we check out RefDB as a poential backbone for our 
institute's literature and reference system.

The server (refdbd) is running on a FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/AMD64 SMP box, 
another test facility is located on an older FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE/i386 box.

Well, I ran into several severe problems, but I will target the first 
and possibly simple-to-fix one first.

I can add references from a file very easily as far as no UTF-8 or ISO 
specific encodings (Umlaute) are used.
When using then a client, refdbc, I'm able to retrieve via 'getau' all 
auhors, but trying 'getref' results in a got-stuck process which I can 
only leave by hitting Ctrl-C.

I also installed the web based contributed interface, but with this, on 
no server I'm able to insert references or retrieve references. The only 
way to retrieve anything is searching by 'Search indices', 'authors'. 
There I can retrieve author names.

I digged the database server and there the tables (most recent 
PostgreSQL), the references are accurate stored.

Even with the supervisor/administration account for PostgreSQL I'm 
incapable of retrieving references.

At this very moment I'm floating like a dead man in the water.

Another problem concerns trouble when inserting references taken from 
our 'JabRef' output or BibTeX in gemeral. I use bib2ris-utf creating RIS 
files for insertion into RefDB, but something gets confused. In most 
cases, the end tag 'ER  - ' is corrupted that way that the trailing 
space gets lost.
Another issue targets LaTeX/TeX tags, like {\'C}uk. As often special 
tags occur at the beginning of a line, say the first author's name, the 
whole entry gets corrupted, the end of line gets lost and the next line 
seems to merge with the first, faulty one.

It would be kind if someone could give me advice.
Thanks in advance,
Oliver

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