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  1. Re: [HACKERS] DBI/DBD anyone?

    Edmund Mergl <e.mergl@bawue.de> — 1998-06-23T19:49:36Z

    Vince Vielhaber wrote:
    > 
    > I'm sending this one to both hackers and interfaces (not sure which one
    > it really pertains to) but I have the reply-to set to interfaces.
    > 
    > Anyway...
    > 
    > I'm trying to set up dbd/dbi and all went well until I got to test DBD.
    > The README says it's for 6.2+, but fails when trying to create a table
    > like so:
    > 
    > CREATE TABLE builtin (
    >  bool    bool,
    >  char    char,
    >  char16  char16,
    >  text    text,
    >  date    date,
    >  int4    int4,
    >  int4_   int4[],
    >  float8  float8,
    >  point   point,
    >  lseg    lseg,
    >  box     box
    > )
    > 
    > I get the error:  ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "char"
    > 
    > Same thing when I try to create it from psql.  Since I know I can
    > create tables all day long with the user I am at the time I have to
    > think there's something changed in PostgreSQL, although I didn't
    > find anything that would point to the problem in any of the docs.
    > That's why I'm sending this to both lists.  Was there a change in
    > datatypes or is there something wrong with the perl script that does
    > the test; I'm rather perl un-savvy!  I'm running 6.3 and perl 5.00404
    > on FreeBSD 2.2.6.
    > 
    > Anyone have any suggestions?
    > 
    > Vince.
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    use DBD-Pg-0.73.tar.gz and please report the version of DBD-Pg if you
    have problems with this module.
    
    
    Edmund
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