On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> > > Chris Hardie writes:
> > > > In anycase, I'm using the Postgres.pm module with PERL, and it doesn't
> > > > seem to support the passing of a username/password pair (correct me if
> > > > I'm wrong) from a CGI script. I'll attempt to code that, unless
> > > > someone has done it already.
> >
> > Actually Pg.pm *does* allow you to connect with a username/password. If
> > you use the 'new-style' methods of Pg.pm, do $db->connect("dbname=..
> > user=.. password=..");. If you use the 'old-style' (like I do), use
> > PQconnectdb() with the same arguments.
>
> He said Postgres.pm, not Pg.pm. There are three modules (that I've
> used anyway) to do Postgres connectivity via perl:
>
> Pg.pm (ugly, too C like for perl)
> Postgres.pm (very perl like)
> DBD::Pg (best way to go, very similar to Postgres.pm)
Ah, I didn't know if any Postgres.pm, so I assumed he ment Pg.pm. I've
seen ppl making that mistake several times (saying Postgres.pm when they
ment Pg.pm).
Maarten
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