Re: Request assistance connecting with Pg::connectdb

Actually in Perl the equality operator 'eq' means that the operands
engade in this
operation are of type string.

Since C programmer use symbolic constants for improved readability, then
your suggestiion....

Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Medi Montaseri wrote:
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>>While I don't have a solution for you, I'd recommend using DBI.
>>
>>Wright, Ryan P wrote:
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>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am having a heck of a time connecting to my postgres server, and was
>>>hoping some kind soul would advise me on how to proceed.
>>>
>>>The problem: Perl script dies with no error message.
>>>
>>>Code snippet:
>>>
>>>$conn = Pg::connectdb("dbname=testdb host=localhost port=5432 user=postgres
>>>password=test");
>>>print "status = ",$conn->status, "\n";
>>>die $conn->errorMessage unless PGRES_CONNECTION_OK eq $conn->status;
>>>
>>>
>
>i think you want that test to read:
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>$conn->status == PGRES_CONNECTION_OK
>
>You're getting the string equality test mixed up with another languages numeric
>one. Or do I mean that the other way around
>
>
>--
>Nigel Andrews
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