DBI isn't a standard part of Perl yet.

To install it you'll to get DBI and also DBD::Postgres (both available on CPAN).

You don't necessarily need your sysadmin in order to get this stuff installed. It is possible to install private copies of modules. See perlman:perlmodinstall for details.

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