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To: "Mengelbier, Magnus" <Magnus.Mengelbier@clinicaldatacare.com>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Error using Perl interface 
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:47:50 +0200
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:49:35 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Mengelbier, Magnus" <Magnus.Mengelbier@clinicaldatacare.com> writes:
> We wonder if anyone has found and resolved an error we recieve when trying
> to connect to a PostgreSQl 6.5.1 database with perl 5.0053.
> We are running Red Hat 6.0 standard installation with PostgreSQL 6.5.1 and
> the perl interface that was available. We opted to install the binaries
> instead of compiliing the source ourselves.  We are running Perl 5.0053 that
> was installed with the system installation.

I believe we found out recently that Perl 5.005-something changed its PM
interfaces, thereby breaking the Postgres perl5 module at both source
and binary levels.  If you revert to Perl 5.004-anything it should work.

It would be nice to find a Perl guru who knows how to fix the perl5
module for the new Perl *without* breaking backwards compatibility for
older Perls (source-level compatibility that is, I suppose binary
compatibility is hopeless).

			regards, tom lane