DBI connect returning an empty hash

Hi all,

I am developing a perl module that, when it is created, establishes a
DBI connection to my postgresql database.  The problem I am having is
that when I issue a DBI->connect command, the database handle it returns
is empty (Data::Dumper shows it as an empty hash).  Here is my code:

sub new {   my $class = shift;   my %arg   = @_;
   my $self  = bless {}, ref($class) || $class;

   my $dbname = $arg{dbname};   my $dbport = $arg{dbport};   my $dbhost = $arg{dbhost};   my $dbuser = $arg{dbuser};
my$dbpass = $arg{dbpass};   my $notrans= $arg{notransact};
 
   warn $dbname,$dbport,$dbhost;   warn $dbuser,$notrans;
   my $dbh = DBI->connect(       "dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;port=$dbport;host=$dbhost",       $dbuser,       $dbpass,
{AutoCommit=> $notrans,        TraceLevel => 4}   ) or die;
 
   warn Dumper($dbh);
   ...etc...

The trace output doesn't show anything strange, and DBI.pm at least
seems to think things went OK, because it doesn't `die` on that line.

I wrote a simple test script that does exactly the same thing, and it
works.  Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be going on
here?

Thanks,
Scott

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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         cain@cshl.edu
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