Re: Problems with new DBD

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Glen Eustace wrote:

> I have just upgraded to the new DBD, but am still using postgresql 7.0.3
>
> I am now getting access errors. I have had to go back into the db and
> GRANT ALL on <ALL> to PUBLIC as a work around.
>
> Even though I have specified a userid and password on the DBI->connect,
> Pg seems to be using the actual user.
>
> NB: I didn't change any of my code, just upgraded to DBD 0.96, I have
> since upgraded to DBI 1.15 but that hasn't helped.

There's a bug in Pg::DBD 0.96. Here's the patch:

*** DBD-Pg-0.96/Pg.pm-orig Tue Apr 10 03:44:18 2001
--- DBD-Pg-0.96/Pg.pm Sun Apr 15 10:26:16 2001
***************
*** 79,89 ****
$Name =~ s/^.*dbname\s*=\s*//;
$Name =~ s/\s*;.*$//;

! $user = "" unless defined($user);
! $auth = "" unless defined($auth);
!
! $user = $ENV{DBI_USER} unless $user eq "";
! $auth = $ENV{DBI_PASS} unless $auth eq "";

my($dbh) = DBI::_new_dbh($drh, {
'Name' => $Name,
--- 79,88 ----
$Name =~ s/^.*dbname\s*=\s*//;
$Name =~ s/\s*;.*$//;

! $user ||= $ENV{DBI_USER};
! $auth ||= $ENV{DBI_PASS};
! $user ||= "";
! $auth ||= "";

my($dbh) = DBI::_new_dbh($drh, {
'Name' => $Name,

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