Hi Monks, I have a website on a webhoster that offers PostgreSQL databases.
Unfortunately it's just webspace so I don't have any access to the underlying OS or root-access. And the DBD::Pg module is not installed. I contacted my webhoster and asked them to install it but so far they seem to be unwilling to do so. The last statement from them was: PHP is used more often than Perl so please think about using PHP.
That wasn't really a helpful answer for me...

Often it is enough to just upload the appropiate .pm files to your own module library but this doesn't work for DBD::Pg.

I am able to run the psql command and have tested this, though. This allows me to run queries and so on. This is the only alternative I came up with so far.
I'd write myself a wrapper-function for the psql-command which I can use in my other scripts. But if possible I want to avoid that since the DBI-module pretty much is what I have used since years.

So my question is: Are there alternatives to DBD::Pg? Or is there some way to use DBD::Pg without having to install it?

Thanks in advance,

Digioso.

In reply to Alternative to DBD::Pg by Digioso

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