True, but _very_ unlikely to be relevant to this problem. Tim.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Alexander Foken wrote: > You need the module, but you should not load it explicitly. DBI will take > care of loading and initialising the module. > > Alexander > > On 13.02.2008 07:09, Peter Levine wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Hmmm. I thought I needed it. So are you saying that i can do all my SQL >> statments (just basic inserts, updates and selects) without he DBD module? I >> guess then I'm unclear on when I would need it. >> >> Pete >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:25:35 PM >> Subject: Re: DBD::Sybase context allocation routine failed >> >> >> >> On Feb 12, 2008 3:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> attempting a DB connection using a brand new installation of perl >> 5.8.8 on an old sun box: 'sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4'. >> >> i have connectivity. >> this command line script returns a reference to a hash: >> perl -MDBI -e 'print DBI- >> >> >>> connect("DBI:Sybase:server=xxxx","user","password")' >>> >> >> but when i attempt to run this stub script: >> >> #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 >> use strict; >> use CGI qw(:standard); >> use DBI; >> >> use DBD::Sybase; >> >> I get this error: >> >> The context allocation routine failed. The following problem caused >> the failure: Invalid context version. Content-Type: text/html; >> charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> I don't get the error it if I comment out the DBD::Sybase statement >> >> Any help is much appreciated. >> Why do you want to 'use DBD::Sybase' given that the working example shows >> that it is not necessary to do so? >> >> If you were importing some specific symbols from DBD::Sybase, it would make >> sense - but you aren't self-evidently doing that, so it doesn't make much >> sense. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Alexander Foken > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foken.de/alexander/
