Re: [Fwd: DBD::Pg on HP-UX 11.31 64bit]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 13:42, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> How much are the postgres people willing to find a solution that would
>> force postgres to optional use BSD type sockets?
>
> FWIW, my long-term plan is to have DBD::Pg provide its own libpq. Not
> sure if this would enable you to solve the problem or not, but
> I suspect it might. Actually removing the libpq dependency is awaiting
> copious amounts of free time on my part, or funding from a sponsor.
> But it's on the todo list. :)

Spinning off into the off-topic based on the question - if you do
this, please make it *optional*. Unless you plan to actually implement
all the libpq functionality and also shoulder the burden to release a
new version whenever a new version of libpq is out. Things like
kerberos/gssapi and cert authentication that actually work the same
way as others...

Might be worth looking at what the ODBC folks did though - they run
the actual protocol for the queries, but they use libipq for
connection setup and authentication (if found - they'll fallback on
doing simple auth etc if libpq isn't there)

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