Re: OT - pg perl DBI question

On 29 Jan 2008, at 13:39, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> 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.

ah sorry, i was just looking at the date on CPAN for  
pgsql_perl5-1.9.0.tar.gz which says 04-Apr-2000.

Thanks for the more up to date info though.

adam