Re: DBD::Pg 0.96 and DBI 1.15 ignoring username and password

Brett,
 I believe this due to a bug in DBD::Pg .96. See the recent thread on
the dbi-users list entitled: "bug in DBD::Pg .96-- connect user mishandled?"

A patch is in the works, and a workaround seems to be to use
$ENV{DBI_USER} and $ENV{DBI_PASS} to set the username and password,
which seem to be respected appropriately. 
  -mark

"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> 
> I've just upgraded to DBD::Pg 0.96 and DBI 1.15, and now every script I
> have that uses DBI gives me this error:
> 
> 1.15 at ./dbi-test line 6
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/DBD/Pg.pm line 94.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/DBD/Pg.pm line 94.
> DBI->connect(dbname=cp) failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied at
> ./dbi-test line 8
> 
> The test.pl script used in the DBD 'make test' also failed with this
> error.  I have not changed anything in my PostgreSQL (7.1beta3) setup or
> in my scripts.
> 
> I have password authentication set for local users, and do have $PGHOST
> set accordingly.  Logging into psql works fine, but all of my Perl DBI
> scripts are failing.
> 
> Here is a test program that is causing this error (the real user name and
> password are changed):
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
> 
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> 
> warn $DBI::VERSION;
> 
> my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Pg:dbname=cp', 'user', 'passwd') or DBI-errstr;
> 
> $dbh->disconnect();
> 
> This gives the error output above also.
> 
> If I change pg_hba.conf to 'trust' on localhost, (and unset $PGHOST) and I
> run the same script, it tells me that 'bmccoy' (who I am logged in as)
> does not exist as a user (which is true).  It looks like the user and
> password fields are being completely ignored by DBD::Pg.
> 
> What happened?
> 
> -- Brett
>                                    http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Adapt.  Enjoy.  Survive.

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