Hello!
I sit on The Perl Foundation's Steering Committee as the Donor Relations
Chair and I may have meet some of you at previous YAPC's.
First, I want to personally THANK YOU ALL for supporting Perl and the
Perl Community with your programming skills! Secondly, I thank you for
supporting PostgreSQL, which I'm anxious to use with my version of Perl!
I've just recently started trying to work with PostgreSQL and want the
full capabilities (or the most I can get) of the database using Perl,
but I'm forced to use ActiveState by my employer for various security
and IT policy reasons.
I'm running ActivePerl 5.12.2 and cannot find your driver using their
PPM module installer.
More research yields this: http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-Pg/
and clicking on red ! buttons shows why. I notice that this driver is
not available for ANY recent ActiveState version and I think it should be.
I found this same situation was true for DBD-mysql, but I intervened and
connected the module author and ActiveState and at least now the
ActiveState DBD-mysql driver has some working versions that can be
installed and work fine!
Please see http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-mysql/
Not just for myself, but for the greater ActiveState Perl community, may
I please ask for your assistance in working with ActiveState to school
them on how to get your module to compile for their module repositories
so more of us can use PostgreSQL more fully?
These are two GREAT people at ActiveState who can either help you or
direct you to those who can help to get your module working with
ActivePerl !
Jan Dubois at [email protected]
Jeff Hobbs at [email protected]
If I can be of any other assistance to you, please email me! I plan to
attend YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. I hope some of
you will be attending!
Sincerely,
Lawrence K. Hixson
Principal Systems Engineer/DBA
U.S. National Weather Service
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
301-713-0022 x190
