Re: prob with PERL/Postgres

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Thomas Good <tomg(at)admin(dot)nrnet(dot)org> writes:
> > Kate, he uses a diff module by the same author (Edmund Mergl) but with
> > a very diff syntax. The advantage of the DBI - Kris, if you're
> > interested - is that the syntax is much like ESQL/C and the code is
> > much more portable. For example I use DBI to access both pg and
> > oracle.
>
> DBI is a good alternative, but is unlikely to act much differently as
> far as connection problems go.

You know Thomas, after I build Pg (including 7.1.2) and fire up initdb
there comes a message about starting the db with -D and the location of
the datafiles. Nothing about using -i...it might be good to include,
no?

Cheers,
Tom

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