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...
> It's not our job to tell people what the wide world of database
> programming has to offer.  We control neither Perl nor the DBD:Pg driver,
> so if we start bothering with that then there is no theoretical boundary
> -- what about all the other Python, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Ruby, or
> language-of-the-day interfaces?

We should mention that they exist, and give pointers on where to find
them and what is involved in installing them (maybe even some shortcut
instructions).

                     - Thomas