Subject: Is there something wrong with Perl's dbi and PostgreSQL?
From: Jeff Self <jself@nngov.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Organization: City of Newport News
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:51:56 -0400
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I just tried running a perl script that I wrote about a year ago. It had
worked for me in the past. Now it doesn't work. I can view data from a
table, but I am unable to either drop a table or create a table. I'm
running PostgreSQL 7.3.4 and DBI 1.35 along with Perl 5.8.1.

Here's my script for creating a table:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# createfoo.pl

use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Pg:dbname=test','dbuser','password',
                      {
                        RaiseError => 1,
                        AutoCommit => 0
                      }
                      ) || die "Database connection not made:
$DBI::errstr";

my $query = $dbh->prepare(
            "CREATE TABLE foo (foo_id INT4," .
            "foo_name TEXT)"
            );
$query->execute();
$dbh->disconnect();


Has anything changed to DBI? I haven't found anything on google
suggesting that it has.

-- 
Jeff Self
Dept. of Information Technology
City of Newport News
(757)926-3741