Re: installing DBD::Pg without installing postgres

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:30:43 -0400, Fran Fabrizio alluded:

>
> Hello,
>
> It seems that there should be a way to install the DBD Pg module without
> having to install postgres on the local machine. I tried installing
> just the libs rpm, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I've done some
> usenet and mailing list archive searches, but all the info I'm turning
> up appears geared towards the assumption that you also want postgres
> installed locally. Am I looking in the wrong places?

There really isn't any reason to do so. If you're looking to have many
machines connect to a single PostgreSQL database, take a look at DBI::Proxy.
It is designed to allow you to connect to databases that have libraries
linked into the DBD::* executables without needing the libraries on the local
box (this is very nice for avoiding the Oracle client library installs as
well).

Jeff