Re: [HACKERS] DBI/DBD anyone?

Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> I'm sending this one to both hackers and interfaces (not sure which one
> it really pertains to) but I have the reply-to set to interfaces.
>
> Anyway...
>
> I'm trying to set up dbd/dbi and all went well until I got to test DBD.
> The README says it's for 6.2+, but fails when trying to create a table
> like so:
>
> CREATE TABLE builtin (
>  bool    bool,
>  char    char,
>  char16  char16,
>  text    text,
>  date    date,
>  int4    int4,
>  int4_   int4[],
>  float8  float8,
>  point   point,
>  lseg    lseg,
>  box     box
> )
>
> I get the error:  ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "char"
>
> Same thing when I try to create it from psql.  Since I know I can
> create tables all day long with the user I am at the time I have to
> think there's something changed in PostgreSQL, although I didn't
> find anything that would point to the problem in any of the docs.
> That's why I'm sending this to both lists.  Was there a change in
> datatypes or is there something wrong with the perl script that does
> the test; I'm rather perl un-savvy!  I'm running 6.3 and perl 5.00404
> on FreeBSD 2.2.6.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Vince.
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use DBD-Pg-0.73.tar.gz and please report the version of DBD-Pg if you
have problems with this module.


Edmund
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