turns out, it's because the newbid is hysterical.

2003-03-12 Thread Jay G. Scott
sigh. i turned on tracing, after trying Pg and some other suggs, and the tracing showed me that there was a SECOND query in the perl code, which is a lot later in the file. that one, obviously, is munged. i can print the values returned from the query i posted. it was never the problem. sorr

turns out, it's '

2003-03-12 Thread Jay G. Scott
-- Jay Scott 512-835-3553[EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of Sun Support, Sr. Operating Systems Specialist Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224 University of Texas at Austin

Re: newbie can't see what he's doing

2003-03-12 Thread Jay G. Scott
I tried it without the semicolon already, same thing happens. (But I did try it again anyway.) j. -- Jay Scott 512-835-3553[EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of Sun Support, Sr. Operating Systems Specialist Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224 Univer

newbie can't see what he's doing wrong.

2003-03-12 Thread Jay G. Scott
Greetings, My code follows. Should be enough for some bright person to figure out what I'm doing wrong. To me, it all looks fine. #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use Pg; use Getopt::Std; $DBSERVER="torn.arlut.utexas.edu"; $USERNAME="postgres"; $PASSWORD=""; $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:PgPP:database=t