Re: [GENERAL] DBI/DBD-Pg/perl question

Yes, I would like to know if you can get around that.. I had to install Postgres
on each machine that accessed the database.

Brian wrote:

> I have a server which runs Postgres 6.3 under linux.  On this system perl,
> DBI-0.93, and DBD-Pg are installed.  This machine can do accesses and
> operations to the database with no problems. This machine is called
> "earth".
>
> What I am wanting to do, is allow say 20 other machines access to this
> database via Perl/DBI/DBD.
>
> Do I have to install Postgres-6.3 on *every* machine that I want to be
> able to access the Postgres database on earth, or is there a way to just
> compile DBD/DBI/perl on these "client only" machines?
>
> The docs for DBD-Pg say you need to install Postgres-6.3 on the machine
> for DBD-Pg to work.  I am just trying to find out if this is really
> necessary, is there such a thing as a "client only" installation of
> Postgres that is a little smaller maybe?  If I have to install
> Postgres-6.3 on every machine i guess I will, I just didn't want to
> maintain that many different copies of one program.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Brian
>
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