Just wondering why would i need libpq here.
Doesn't DBD::pg has its own functions for database related activities.
I think i'm quite naive in this.
Also, the triggers that i wrote in C are not all that elaborative. They are pretty basic triggers. Also, I'm a rookie in perl but don't need to do something hifi with it.
Thanks,
~Jas
On 8/28/06, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:41:39PM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote:
> The actual scenario is like my perl code is on one computer and database
> server is on the other computer. The perl code needs to connect to that
> database server residing on a diff computer.
>
> I think client machine should also have DBI module in it. right?
Right. The client machine needs DBI (the database-independent
module), DBD::Pg (the PostgreSQL-specific driver), and libpq (the
PostgreSQL client library).
> Also, how much of a change would it be if i have to migrate my triggers
> and functions written for C to Perl
That depends on how many triggers you have, how elaborate they are,
and how proficient you are at Perl. I tend to use PL/pgSQL for
functions that involve a lot of SQL statements; I use PL/Perl or
PL/Ruby for things like text manipulation that those languages are
good at.
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Michael Fuhr
