Re: What the heck is happening here?

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> > Quoting Alex Pilosov (alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com):
> > > Don't do it. If you _must_ get some stuff on startup, close the conn after
> > > you are done. See mod_perl references for examples on using of ApacheDBI
> > > (mostly its just 'use ApacheDBI' vs 'use DBI') and no, you cannot use Pg
> > > (the oldstyle, libpq-alike) interface with ApacheDBI, you must use
> > > DBD::Pg.
> >
> > That shows how out of it I am - I didn't even know there was a DBD::Pg.
> > Why isn't it in the postgres-perl RPM?
>
> A lot of people don't seem to know this -- I guess they think that
> configuring PgSQL '--with-perl' installs the 'one and only' Perl
> interface. Unfortunately for them, they often never find out about
> DBD::Pg and DBI, which many people consider to be a more pleasant way
> to access databases from Perl.
>
> Perhaps a note in the install documentation could mention the existence
> of multiple Perl interfaces and where to go to get DBD::Pg
> (www.cpan.org)

I think we need to get DBD:Pg into our distribution.

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