Re: Activeperl 5.8 on windows and postgres 8 - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Leon Schmets wrote:

> I downloaded DBD-Pg from http://www.edmund-mergl.de/export/ and found out it
> doesn't install on Active perl 5.8.
> 
>                                                            fe_sendauth:
> authentication type 5 not supported\r, referer:


Auth type 5 is md5 authentication that was only introduced in 7.2 which 
was released early 2002.  Since the DBD::Pg driver you have is dated Nov 
2000 it does not have support for it.  You should really get a newer 
DBD::Pg, but a temporary workaround would be to use a different auth 
method.

Kris Jurka