Re: [INTERFACES] Perl module: Postgres - obsolete?

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> > I've been using this module ever since, and am now wondering how safe
> > it'll be with 6.3. It needed a further tweak to Makefile.PL this time
> > (changed libpq.so.1 to libpq.so.1.1). In the medium term I will fix my
> > code to use a more up to date Perl interface; in the meantime I'd be
> > grateful for any advice. Am I likely to damage my data or crash the
> > postmaster? The number change from 1 to 1.1 seems to indicate that the
> > library should still work...
>
> Is there a reason to not use the perl5 interface included with
> v6.3? *raised eyebrow*

Yep, my legacy code ;-)

I've a /cgi-bin/dbase script written last year when the other library
seemed OK. It shouldn't need too much reworking to move over to the new
interface, but I won't be able to do this immediately. I'd really like to
move to 6.3 first so I can take advantage of the improved ODBC support.

I want to hack a whois++ interface to PostgreSQL at some point soon, and
will be using the standard perl5 library for that.

cheers,

Dan

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