Just my own input on this. We are a freebsd house but run our sapdb servers on linux. Not having client libraries for freebsd is a pain. Mysql should port the odbc drivers at least, since it would be minimal work IMO. I have tested the odbc libraries ported by komadev, but they have a few bugs and cannot be used as of yet. Compiled against the DBD::ODBC module inserts work fine, but most selects will make perl dump core. However I don't think it would take much effort to get them working properly.
What has worked for us since we primarily use perl is using the DBI Proxy server. So far it has been reliable. Performance is good when you can cache connections and avoid the proxy server startup on the server side, such as when you are using apache mod_perl as we are. But if you can't cache the connections performance is slower than using the odbc drivers directly. It works though and lets us connect to sapdb from freebsd while we look at our options. Chris Payment Online Inc -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
