Re: Perl and Postgres

From: "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)tincan(dot)org>
To: "Brian C(dot) Doyle" <bcdoyle(at)mindspring(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl and Postgres
Date: 2001-09-26 13:59:36
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10109260648560.10490-100000@tincan.org
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Brian C. Doyle wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Where can I look to find out more about developing a web based interface
> via Perl.. Currently I do it all via PHP but do to resources available for
> a project I have I need to convert over to perl.. I check the Postgres
> Doc's and there were no examples to help get me started. Any thing
> appreciated.

"Programming the Perl DBI", Decartes, Bunce, Oreilly
"Perl Cookbook", Christiansen & Torkington, Oreilly
"Advanced Perl Programming", Srinivasan, Oreilly

Yes I am a bit of an Oreilly fan!

And a few suggestions:

Normalize, normalize, normalize.
(de-normalize portions if needed)

Put as much of the application logic in the database as you can.

Don't re-invent the wheel, use as many perl modules as you need.

Cheers,
Rod
--
Let Accuracy Triumph Over Victory

Zetetic Institute
"David's Sling"
Marc Stiegler

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