Thanks for all the help. I was actually able to compile source code of
Pg-7.3.1 and set the perl interfaces from scratch. Things are working
fine now. Thankfully, I had a lot of disk-space to complete the total
thing.
Thanks specially to Mr. Doug McNaught to inspire me to go for it in
this way ;)
Regards.
-Samik
Doug McNaught wrote:
> Samik Raychaudhuri <samik@cae.wisc.edu> writes:
>
>
>>Actually the problem is: my PG database runs on Windows,
>>
>
> Gaaah!
>
>
>> and don't
>>have sufficient privileges for compiling the complete postgresql
>>source code in the sun machine.
>>
>
> You don't need privileges; you just need disk space (which I
> understand you might not have). You should be able to compile and
> install the libraries in your user account, and persuade Perl to load
> its libs from there. Exactly how is left as an exercise for the
> student. ;)
>
>
>>Is there any other way?
>>
>
> Hmmm, you could read the frontend/backend protocol doc and implement a
> "pure Perl" client library (rather than one that links against libpq).
> It's been done for a couple of Lisp implementations. Be a lot of
> work, though.
>
> -Doug
>
