Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010402185826.00dc1340@hollyjerry.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:16:43 -0700
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
From: Jerry Asher <jerry@hollyjerry.org>
Subject: Re: trouble finding the object method driver.... 
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At 09:09 PM 4/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Jerry Asher <jerry@hollyjerry.org> writes:
> > At a suggestion from then net, I have recently (today) loaded DBI::DBD
> > and Bundle::DBI
> >   perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBI::DBD'
> >   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBI'
> > I then followed the instructions in
> > postgresql-7.1beta5/src/interfaces/perl5/README, and installed Pg.pm.
>
>interfaces/perl5 is a standalone interface module for Perl.  It has
>nothing to do with DBI.  In particular, it is *not* the same thing as
>DBD-Pg, which is the Pg driver that DBI is looking for.  You can find
>DBD-Pg in the same CPAN archives you got DBI from.
>
>                         regards, tom lane

Thanks Tom, Woo hoo!  It works!

Perhaps a bit of my stumble was caused by this message

>Perhaps the
>DBD::Pg perl module hasn't been fully installed, or perhaps the
>capitalisation of 'Pg' isn't right. Available drivers: ADO, ExampleP,
>Multiplex, Proxy. at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/webcal/webcal_io.pm line 282

Which appears to use the same name for the DBD module as for the 
interfaces/perl5 module.

Is there a naming convention I should learn about?

Thanks again!

Jerry Asher


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