Re: perl namespace for postgres specific modules?

11 Aug 2006 15:57:42 -0700, Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> I need to write a perl module which will parse a .pgpass file into a
> reasonable data-structure in memory. I may extend it later to go in the
> other direction (given a populated datastructure, write a .pgpass).
>
> The first question that came to mind is what namespace should I put
> this under? Is there any precedent for perl modules intended to support
> postgresql administration? If not, I suggest
>
> PostgreSQL::pgpass

PostgreSQL sounds like a logical choice. However CPAN - which has
product-specific namespaces such as DB2, MySQL, Msql and Oracle, has
"Postgres" rather than "PostgreSQL" (though there are only two
modules in it, one of which dates from 1998,
see http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Postgres/ ).

Ian Barwick