Re: Perl postgres question - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu
Subject Re: Perl postgres question
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0106211029050.11347-100000@sage.che.pitt.edu
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In response to Re: Perl postgres question  (Danny Aldham <danny@lennon.postino.com>)
List pgsql-novice

Sometime in June Danny Aldham assaulted keyboard and produced...

|>
|> At 12:08 PM 6/20/01 -0500, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote:
|> >One more question.. what module(s) are you guys using to access postgres
|> >from perl??
|> >Travis
|>
|> I use the Pg module. I couldn't get DBI to work, perhaps due to my lack of
|> skill.
|
|I use the DBI module, and really recommend it. If you use Pg to code,
|and later want to change the underlying database, you will need to
|recode the whole project. If you use DBI, you may get away with
|changing just one line.

assuming you use standard sql in your selects and stuff. i really like
alot of postgreses operators. so in reality you would probably have to
change more than one line, but not nearly as much if you use only the pg
module.

--
john




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