Re: Shared Objects (Dynamic loading)

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:41:39PM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote:
> The actual scenario is like my perl code is on one computer and database
> server is on the other computer. The perl code needs to connect to that
> database server residing on a diff computer.
>
> I think client machine should also have DBI module in it. right?

Right. The client machine needs DBI (the database-independent
module), DBD::Pg (the PostgreSQL-specific driver), and libpq (the
PostgreSQL client library).

> Also, how much of a change would it be if i have to migrate my triggers
> and functions written for C to Perl

That depends on how many triggers you have, how elaborate they are,
and how proficient you are at Perl. I tend to use PL/pgSQL for
functions that involve a lot of SQL statements; I use PL/Perl or
PL/Ruby for things like text manipulation that those languages are
good at.

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Michael Fuhr