Re: OT - pg perl DBI question

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: adam_pgsql <adam_pgsql@witneyweb.org>
Cc: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-01-29T13:39:05Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:30:04PM +0000, adam_pgsql wrote:
> 
> this looks to be using the Pg module rather than DBI + DBD::Pg. This  
> one i think:
> 
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/ME/MERGL/pgsql_perl5-1.9.0.tar.gz
> 
> i think thats quite old now though....

In the one in this package:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libpg-perl

It's not old. It's kept reasonably up to date. It's more or less a shim
over the C library and has direct access to all its features, which is
not always possible with DBD:Pg.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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