No warning when missing driver?

[Jos I. Boumans]

Hi,

I've just noticed something slightly inconvenient:

if i tell DBI to connect to a postgres db, but i don't have DBD::Pg 
installed, it will not give me a warning of any kind, including when 
DBI->trace(5) is set, that
i do not have the necessary driver installed. It simply silently fails.

On top of that, when then trying to access $DBI::errstr, DBI informs me 
it could not access that string and dies.

This problem exists at least in version 1.38 of DBI.

on a side note, http://dbi.perl.org/support/ has all the links to 
'details' about the mailing lists pointing at 
http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=dbi-announce for all 3 mailing 
lists.

Regards,

--

Jos Boumans

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