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Show us how you're connecting. This may be different than on Windows, e.g. host

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Re^2: Postgres + Perl + Ubuntu
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jun 21, 2016 at 10:57 UTC
    OK, it wasn't host, but it was indeed the connect options as you suspected. I'll post what it was as a reply to my OP.

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Re^2: Postgres + Perl + Ubuntu
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jun 21, 2016 at 08:55 UTC
    host is left empty, but you could be on to something there, because the method of connecting to localhost is very different from windows. So DBI could be looking in the wrong directory for postgres config. I'll look into it further, thanks!! For the whole picture: only the dbname and password are specified, the rest of the connect is left to default.

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