On Mon 10 Jun 2002 13:09, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:12:52AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > The way to do this is get the best ODBC driver for Postgress and > > use DBD::ODBC and the DBI to write this code for you! Like this: > > > > perl -MDBI::DBD -e write_getinfo_pm dbi:ODBC:pgdb user pass > >lib/DBD/Pg/GetInfo.pm > > And I'd like to drum home the point that *all* driver authors should > be adding support for get_info(). It's not hard, especially if there's > an ODBC driver available for the same database.
I took a look at this when it all started, but performance was SOOOOO bad on this (probably because of the way they implemented the system view's) that would not like to release that. With my new DB version, I'll have another look > Tim. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 631 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.024 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
