Re: connect from perl: error in Carp.pm

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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>>When I try to connect as following, I get an error in Carp.pm:
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>>$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:dbname=my_db", $username, $password,{AutoCommit
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>>=> Not a CODE reference at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/Carp.pm line 178.
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>>Maybe there are some right issue; I installed DBI and DBD as root, I'm
>>calling the script as root, but postgres runs under its own user.
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>I doubt that's it, but I am not sure what is going on. Can you tell us more
>about the circumstances: is this a standalone script. Perhaps an Apache
>cgi script? What version of DBI, DBD::Pg, PostgreSQL, and (if applicable)
>Apache?
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the problem is the
missing value for RaiseError in your connect statement.

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