Re: Perl and Postgres

This probably seems ludicrously obvious, but: you need to have the DBI and
DBD::Pg modules installed on your system.
The definitive source is "perldoc DBI", though this is not nearly as easy to
read as the other sources mentioned.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@tincan.org>
To: "Brian C. Doyle" <bcdoyle@mindspring.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Perl and Postgres


> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Brian C. Doyle wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Where can I look to find out more about developing a web based interface
> > via Perl.. Currently I do it all via PHP but do to resources available
for
> > a project I have I need to convert over to perl.. I check the Postgres
> > Doc's and there were no examples to help get me started.  Any thing
> > appreciated.
>
> "Programming the Perl DBI", Decartes, Bunce, Oreilly
> "Perl Cookbook", Christiansen & Torkington, Oreilly
> "Advanced Perl Programming", Srinivasan, Oreilly
>
> Yes I am a bit of an Oreilly fan!
>
> And a few suggestions:
>
> Normalize, normalize, normalize.
> (de-normalize portions if needed)
>
> Put as much of the application logic in the database as you can.
>
> Don't re-invent the wheel, use as many perl modules as you need.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Rod
> --
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