Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fALLPCm71301 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:25:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id fALLP8t10318; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:25:08 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200111212125.fALLP8t10318@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Documentation gap: Perl interfaces In-Reply-To: <10300.1006138220@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Nov 18, 2001 09:50:20 pm" To: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:25:08 -0500 (EST) CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200111/62 X-Sequence-Number: 1135 > I just noticed that the SGML documents contain no description of the > perl5 interface (Pg.pm), nor yet any mention that there is a DBI/DBD > driver available. Anyone looking at the "Client Interfaces" section > would think there is no Perl interface available at all :-(. > > I am not sure that it's worth transcribing interfaces/perl5/README > into SGML, given that we aren't encouraging new development with that > code anyway. But surely there should be some mention of DBI. Added to TODO: * Add documentation for perl, including mention of DBI/DBD perl location -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026