Re: perl Pg module and result status

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:27:40PM -0400, Edward Q. Bridges wrote:
> i can't seem to locate the reference to the documentation
> you mention in the perldoc for DBD::Pg, can you reference
> it?

I believe he is using straight Pg - the perl interface to Postgres.
AFAIK, that's independant of DBI::Pg, which is the Postgres
driver for DBI.

I agree with you, however: I've found DBD::Pg quite a bit easier
to work with than Pg. It also gives you the possibility of
moving your code to another database with relatively small
changes.

If you don't mind me commenting on your code:

> use DBI;
> $user = '';
> $pass = '';
> $dburl = '';  # should be: dbi:Pg:dbname=[your database name]
> $db = DBI->connect($dburl, $user, $pass, {AutoCommit=>0} )
>    or die "Can't connect to db";

Is there a reason you're not using constants? e.g.

use constant DB_USER   => 'foo';
use constant DB_PASSWD => 'qwerty';

You might also want to add the "$DBI::errstr" to the error message
on a connection failure.

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist nit-picking :D)

HTH,

Neil

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