Re: prob with PERL/Postgres

1.   I'm assuming that psql works fine?  psql -h 127.0.0.1 mpact?
1b. Have you checked the port??  You ARE running postmaster with the '-i' option, aren't you?

The recommended solutions are typically to use the DBI and DBD modules.  Try man DBD::Pg.

Alternatively: have you tried the setdbLogin method instead:

          $conn = Pg::setdbLogin($pghost, $pgport, $pgoptions, $pgtty, $dbname, $login, $pwd)
      Opens a new connection to the backend. The connection      identifier $conn ( a pointer to the PGconn structure )
    must be used in subsequent commands for unique identifica-      tion. Before using $conn you should call
$conn->statusto      ensure, that the connection was properly made.  Closing a      connection is done by deleting the
connectionhandle, eg      'undef $conn;'.
 


Hope this helps a little......


Allan


Kristopher Yates wrote:

> PERL SNIPPET:
>
> # build arrays from file (OMITTED)
>
> use Pg;
> $dbhost='127.0.0.1';
> $dbname='mpact';
> #$connstr="dbname=$dbname";
> $connstr="host=$dbhost dbname=$dbname";
> $conn = Pg::connectdb($connstr);
>
> #more code related to date omitted
>
>     $result=$conn->exec($sql);
>     (PGRES_COMMAND_OK eq $result->resultStatus)
>     or  die $conn->errorMessage;
>
> WHY DO I GET PQsendQuery() -- There is no connection to the
> backend.  I have tried leaving host blank, using IP 127.0.0.1 and
> hostname localhost.  This script should work - the problem is
> something with postgres but I dont know what.  Any ideas out
> there?  Thanks,  Kris
>
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