Activeperl 5.8 on windows and postgres 8

Hi all,

I am in the process of installing SQL-Ledger. I am unfamiliar with Postgres
not with Perl.

I downloaded DBD-Pg from http://www.edmund-mergl.de/export/ and found out it
doesn't install on Active perl 5.8.

So I started my search for a solution. On the website of SQL-Ledger it says
to uninstall Perl 5.8, install 5.6, install the driver and install Perl 5.8.

No, as I already had quite a setup on my machine, I decided to skip the ppm
install and do it myself. So I put the files in place, created the pkg and
packlist files and . it almost worked.

The connection to the database fails because it cannot load the pg.dll.
Looking into that I found that this dll refers directly to perl56.dll which
of course is part of ActivePerl 5.6 which I have not installed. So I patched
the dll and again got a little further. No more error messages about failing
to load a dll. Now a real connect error pops up, which I have no idea to
work at.

[Thu Feb 03 14:35:44 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBI
connect('dbname=template1;host=localhost','sql-ledger',...) failed:

fe_sendauth:
authentication type 5 not supported\r, referer:
https://localhost/sql-ledger/admin.pl

[Thu Feb 03 14:35:44 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] at SL/User.pm line
509\r, referer: https://localhost/sql-ledger/admin.pl

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Leon Schmets