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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:10:20PM -0800, tom poe wrote:
> Hi: I can connect to PostgreSQL, which is good. Now, how do I clear this up?
> tompoe@aether:~/perlStuff > dbistart
> DBI::st=HASH(0x81e31bc)
> tompoe@aether:~/perlStuff >
>
> Not sure what the topic is to look up this output. The code is:
> #! /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 -w
> # Programming the Perl DBI
> # ch05/prepare/ex1: Simply creates a database handle and a statement
> #handle
> use strict;
> use DBI;
>
> ### The database handle
> my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=tomdb');
>
> ### The statement handle
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT name FROM friend" );
> print "$sth\n";
>
> $dbh->disconnect();
>
> exit;
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks, Tom
There is nothing here to clear up -- the program is doing exactly what you told
it to (namely, "print $sth").
Since you seem to be expecting this action to magically produce data from your
database, you may wish to consider reading more of the documentation before
continuing -- e.g., the parts about "execute" and "fetch".
- --
Stephen Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Programmer, IQ Coordinator Project Lead
The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/>
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