Subject: Re: PostgreSQL & Perl DBI
To: Gan Uesli Starling <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/17/2001 18:56:08
> I couldn't puzzle this out from the PostgreSQL FAQ. Folks on this list had 
> definite opinions before, so...

Oh, there's no shortage of definite opinions on the NetBSD lists. :-)

> So...you folks that formerly wanted to steer me from MySQL toward
> PostgreSQL, answer me this please. If I put a PostgreSQL server on a
> one-and-only NetBSD box, can I access it from Perl DBI on Win32
> boxes over the LAN?

Perhaps:

    http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?odbc.html
    http://search.cpan.org/doc/JURL/DBD-ODBC-0.28/README

The PostgreSQL mailing list archives might have some discussion of how
well this works in practice:

    http://fts.postgresql.org

Since I've not used ODBC to access PostgreSQL the recommendation is a
definite maybe! ;-)

Regards,

Giles