Hey all, I want to update some tables in a Postgres dbase and I want to use DBI to do that. I'm using the DBD::Pg 1.01 driver. I am running into a problem of having to do a bind_param - 
$select00->bind_param(1,$id,SQL_INTEGER)|| die $select00->errstr;
$select00->bind_param(3,$item,SQL_INTEGER)|| die $select00->errstr;

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But when I run the script I get the following - 
DBI::st=HASH(0x80f86e0)->bind_param(...): attribute parameter 'SQL_INT
+EGER' is n
ot a hash ref at ./dbtest.insert line 19.

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Here is the entire code - 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#
use strict;
use DBI;


my $dsn="dbi:Pg:dbname=tabletest";
my $user="postgres";
my $passwd="";

#
#
#
my ($dbh,$id,$descr,$item,$latin);
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $passwd, { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommi
+t => 0 });

my $select00 = $dbh->prepare('INSERT INTO hobby (id,descr,item,latin) 
+VALUES (?,
?,?,?)')|| die $dbh->errstr;
        $select00->bind_param(1,$id,SQL_INTEGER)|| die $select00->errs
+tr;
        $select00->bind_param(3,$item,SQL_INTEGER)|| die $select00->er
+rstr;

my $csvfile="/home/bradley/dbtest/item_instk.csv";
open (CSV,"$csvfile");
while (<CSV>) {
        chop;
        $id = 1;
        ($item,$descr,$latin) = split /\//;
        $select00->execute( $id, $descr, $item, $latin )||die $dbh->er
+rstr;
        ++$id;
}
close CSV;

$dbh->disconnect;

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Also, do I need to quote the SQL_INTEGER parts of the bind_params? I get 
Bareword "SQL_INTEGER" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./dbt
+est.insert
 line 18.

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If I don't quote them. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Bradley Where ever there is confusion to be had... I'll be there.

In reply to DBI data types by Dalin

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