> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrence Brannon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Postgres w/DBI
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> On Sunday, October 14, 2001, at 07:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hello All,
> >
> > We've been using MySQL with Perl/DBI for quiet awhile, and have been
> > looking at
> > trying Postgres. I was wonder how much re-coding is involved if we use
> > our
> > existing scripts with Postgres instead of MySQL??
>
> There are a few answers to your question
>
> 1 - there do exist powerful database-independent SQL generators for
> Perl. namely, DBIx::Recordset and Alzabo, both at search.cpan.org
Right but DBI is also database independent in most cases. Yes you can have
db specific commands with func() and some attributes, but if you exercise
proper portable coding then there shouldn't be any problems.
>
> 2 - if you prefer the pure SQL over SQL generation route, then you can
> look at DBIx::AnyDBD here:
> http://search.cpan.org/doc/MSERGEANT/DBIx-AnyDBD-2.00/AnyDBD.pm
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