Re: Pgsql errors, DBI and CGI::Carp

My mistake was using DBD::PgPP (as suggested in "Beginning Databases
with PostgreSQL" by Neil Matthew and Richard stones, Apress) instead
of DBD::Pg.

Thanks for help!

On May 1, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Daniel Verite wrote:

> Toomas Vendelin wrote:
>
>> I'm writing CGI scripts in Perl using Postgresql via DBI
>> interface. RAISE_ERROR is on.
>> For some reason (unlike with MySQL), when a Perl script dies from
>> Postgresql error, the line number of Perl script where the error
>> occurred is not reported, just the SQL statement line number is
> given.
>> In a longer script looking it may become a tedious task to guess the
>
>> line in script that caused the problem. Is that an expected behavior
>
>> or am I missing something?
>
> It works for me:
>
> $ cat dberr.pl
> use CGI::Carp;
> use DBI;
> my $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=test") or die;
> $dbh->do("bogus SQL");
>
> $ perl dberr.pl
> [Fri May 1 15:05:08 2009] dberr.pl: DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR:
> syntax error at or near "bogus"
> [Fri May 1 15:05:08 2009] dberr.pl: LINE 1: bogus SQL
> [Fri May 1 15:05:08 2009] dberr.pl: ^ at dberr.pl line 4.
>
> If you run that trivial program in your environment, what output do
> you get?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Daniel
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