DBD::Pg has never been state of the art. In fact, it has suffered from lack of dedicated maintainership for years. However, in the last year or so development seems to be picking up. Monk Greg Sabino Mullane aka turnstep is very active in development right now.

Apart from lack of performance, there are issues with lack of complete backend functionality coverage and stability problems (bugs / crashes / corner cases etc.). Said this, the driver mostly "works" (i.e. it is not in a "broken" state right now).

The issues with DBD::Pg are a bottleneck which prevents the use of what I think is a superior database IMO in heavy-duty environments. I use the space here to ask people who are involved with real DB application development to try to subscribe to the mailing list and report bugs / fixes, share experiences, post suggestions, ask for features etc. Don't let the trail run cold.

DBD::Pg needs you!

Another interesting PostgreSQL / Perl project is PLperl NG. It makes possible to write server-side procedures in Perl, very cool indeed. However, development goes at a very slow pace, this project also desperately needs more people involved.

In reply to Re: Why is DBD::Pg slower than DBD::mysql? by calin
in thread Why is DBD::Pg slower than DBD::mysql? by danb

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