"Jason J. Czerak" <jason-czerak@jasnik.net> writes:
> what i'm confused about now is the best way to interface with the server.
> there's ODBC, DBI, and others.
> My main tools are Perl and PHP.
If you're using Perl I think it's a no-brainer: DBI is the standard way.
(Not sure why we don't include a DBI driver in the standard pgsql
distro, but you can find one in CPAN.)
regards, tom lane