Re: [INTERFACES] Re: Quick perl question

> I also would like to echo the comments that someone else has made about using
> DBI::DBD rather than Pg.  Pg works well and is slightly easier to get working,
> but that is because the complexity of DBI::DBD adds some useful stuff not
> present in Pg. In particular, the error trapping is great. On the down side, it
> gets tedious writting each query as two parts: "prepare" and "execute".  This is
> compensated for in overall portability to other DBMS, I think.

You may also avoid that downside by encapsulating prepare() and
execute(), eg. 
sub mySelect {    ...    prepare...    execute...    ...}

Regards,
Ed Loehr