On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I disagree. The crucial difference is that DBD::Pg is a client side > library and plperl is not. > > I would like all perl programmers to be able to use the same (or > similar) idioms on both the client side and the server side. (Just as > one can use JDBC idioms in PL/Java, iirc). So I want a DBI handle to be > available in core plperl if possible. Just like perl programmers need to download DBD::Pg to deal with Pg on client side, I don't see what's so wrong with them having to download DBD::PgSPI to deal with it on server side.
Besides the fact is that they have to download DBI to get *anywhere* in the first place ;0 -alex ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org