[techtalk] Postgresql and perl...

[Sean McAfee]

Michelle Leonard <michelle_leonard at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I decided to start out with postgresql - if I'm
>learning something new I may as well go with the
>"everything" version, so I won't have to do it again
>later...

>So I have sucessfully installed it, and I reviewed
>docs and played around with pgsql.  I'm also kicking
>myself for not doing this earlier - it's so much
>easier (and faster) than multiple greping multiple
>flatfiles.

>So now my question is where are examples/docs on how
>to hook into this using perl instead of pgsql?  I did
>install the postgresql-perl rpm...

I found a short guide to DBI (Perl's "Database Interface Module") at:

http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/10/DBI.html

I've been using DBI for a couple of years, and would be happy to address
questions folks may have on this list.

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