Re: Driver Frustration// Perl DBI

On Friday 17 January 2003 02:14 pm, Cheryl Thompson wrote:
> I'm working with Postgresql to implement a DB on the Web.
> After discovering that Dreamweaver UD 4 does not support Posgres, even
> thought I'm running Postgresql through an ODBC, I went on to Perl.
>
> The latest Perl DBI interface I can find on CPAN is dated 1998 and is for
> PostGre95.
>
> Is there an up to date Perl DBI for Postgresql? When can I find it? (it's
> NOT in CPAN!).
>
> Thanks,
> Cheryl
>
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Hi Cheryl -

You should use DBI + DBD-Pg-1.12 module like so:

use DBI;
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$database",$user,$password);

-- Doug