Re: Pg.so problem

Samik Raychaudhuri <samik(at)cae(dot)wisc(dot)edu> writes:

> Actually the problem is: my PG database runs on Windows,

Gaaah!

> and don't
> have sufficient privileges for compiling the complete postgresql
> source code in the sun machine.

You don't need privileges; you just need disk space (which I
understand you might not have). You should be able to compile and
install the libraries in your user account, and persuade Perl to load
its libs from there. Exactly how is left as an exercise for the
student. ;)

> Is there any other way?

Hmmm, you could read the frontend/backend protocol doc and implement a
"pure Perl" client library (rather than one that links against libpq).
It's been done for a couple of Lisp implementations. Be a lot of
work, though.

-Doug
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