On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:58:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mr. Brand - > > I'll reply off-list, since you say dbi-dev is the incorrect one (which > would you recommend)?
dbi-users > I'd like to know why you suggest DBD::Pg for Progress. DBD::Pg is > advertised as being for Postgres, which is an open-source database. > > The Progress RDBMS is decidedly NOT open-source (see www.progress.com). > Indeed, one of the problems my management has with it are what they > consider exhorbitant license fees. I stand corrected. I blame the more ignorant users that typo this database soooo often that I read everything posted like this as a request for PostgreSQL. > So, my question is: does the Postgres stuff work for Progress? Or will I > have to write a new DBD module to obtain a direct connection (which is why > I asked on dbi-dev)? In that case, you might have been right in the first place for choosing this list. I've put it back here, as your questions are very valid. Sorry again. Now for the real question. I also do not see a Postgress DBD on CPAN, which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it only proves that if someone has done it, he or she never put it on CPAN. I do not know how Progress interfaces. If it uses E/SQL find a driver that uses a lot of that (DBD-Unify, FreeTDS, and Ingres might be helpful in scanning). If you are HLI (c library calls), then use DBD-Oracle and DBD-ODBC as guidance Read DBD.pm, as in # man DBI::DBD or # perldoc DBI::DBD -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
