On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Alex Pilosov (alex@pilosoft.com):
> > Don't do it. If you _must_ get some stuff on startup, close the conn after
> > you are done. See mod_perl references for examples on using of ApacheDBI
> > (mostly its just 'use ApacheDBI' vs 'use DBI') and no, you cannot use Pg
> > (the oldstyle, libpq-alike) interface with ApacheDBI, you must use
> > DBD::Pg.
>
> That shows how out of it I am - I didn't even know there was a DBD::Pg.
> Why isn't it in the postgres-perl RPM?
Because its not considered (yet, there are talks about inclusion of it) a
part of postgresql core. Its distributed on cpan, use 'perl -MCPAN
-eshell' then 'install DBD::Pg'
-alex