Re: Is 7.0 ready? -> DBD as well???

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Ed Loehr wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> >
> > >Do you know if Edmund (Mergl) has written a DBD driver for Pg7 yet?
>
> I am running DBD::Pg 0.93 with pg7 and it works fine.


The following is an email response I got from Edmund Mergl about DBD-Pg 0.93
with PostgreSQL 7.0beta5:

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Edmund Mergl wrote:
> "Robert B. Easter" wrote:
> >
> > I'm running PostgreSQL 7.0beta5.  I tried to install DBD-Pg and some "not ok"
> > results.  I'm hoping you can look and offer some suggestions.
> >
> > ---
> > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
> > -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 test.pl
> > OS: linux DBI->data_sources .......... ok
> > DBI->connect ............... ok
> > $dbh->{Name} ............... ok
> > $dbh->ping ................. ok
> > $dbh->do ................... ok
> > $dbh->table_info ........... ok
> > $dbh->tables ............... ok
> > $dbh->pg_table_attributes .. not ok: date_
> > $dbh->prepare .............. ok
> > $dbh->execute .............. ok
> > $sth->{pg_oid_status} ...... ok
> > $sth->{pg_cmd_status} ...... ok
> > $sth->finish ............... ok
> > $sth->bind_param ........... ok
> > $sth->fetchrow_array ....... not ok: 1 a Edmund Mergl quote \ ' this   Edmund Mergl Edmund Mergl 1997-08-03 1234
{1,2,3}1.234 (1,2) [(1,2),(3,4)] (3,4),(1,2) 
> > $sth->fetchrow_arrayref .... not ok: 0 b Halli  Hallo but  not  this   Halli  Hallo Halli  Hallo 1995-06-01 5678
{5,6,7}5.678 (4,5) [(4,5),(6,7)] (6,7),(4,5) 
> > $sth->fetchrow_hashref ..... not ok:  key = box_, val = (8,7),(2,3)
> > $sth->{NAME} ............... ok
> > $sth->{TYPE} ............... ok
> > $sth->{pg_size} ............ ok
> > $sth->{pg_type} ............ ok
> > $sth->bind_columns ......... ok
> > $sth->fetch ................ not ok:  1, a, Edmund Mergl, quote \ ' this  , Edmund Mergl, Edmund Mergl, 1997-08-03,
1234,{1,2,3}, 1.234, (1,2), [(1,2),(3,4)], (3,4),(1,2) 
> > $sth->bind_col ............. ok
> > $sth->fetch ................ ok
> > $sth->{ChopBlanks} .......... not ok: 1 a Edmund Mergl quote \ ' this Edmund Mergl Edmund Mergl 1997-08-03 1234
{1,2,3}1.234 (1,2) [(1,2),(3,4)] (3,4),(1,2) 
> > $sth->rows ................. ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_import) ...... ok
> > $sth->blob_read ............ ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_open) ........ ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_lseek) ....... ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_read) ........ ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_tell) ........ ok
> > $dbh->func(lo_close) ....... ok
> > NOTICE:  Caution: DROP TABLE cannot be rolled back, so don't abort now
> > NOTICE:  Caution: DROP INDEX cannot be rolled back, so don't abort now
> > $dbh->func(lo_unlink) ...... ok
> > compare blobs .............. ok
> > $dbh->disconnect ........... ok
> > test sequence finished.
> > ---
> >
> > --
> > Robert B. Easter
> > reaster@comptechnews.com
> >
> >
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> >                   Name: test.txt
> >    test.txt       Type: text/x-c++
> >               Encoding: base64
> >            Description: make test output
>
>
> there is no major problem, the default date format has changed.
> A new version will be available soon.
>
> Edmund
>
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