Hello Kind and Wise Monks:

I am certain that one of your members will be able to assist me. I am attempting to connect to a postgres 8.2 database using DBI. Here are some details that may help Postgresql is install on my local machine under Windows. Within postgres in postgresql.conf listen_adresses is selected and set to *. Listen to all IP addresses?
And port is set to default 5432.
I am using Active Perl 5.8.8 with DBI 1.52 and DBD-Pg 1.45 installed.

My code follows: 

use DBI;

my $dsn = "dbi:Pg:dbname='benchmark_c';host='localhost'" ;

my $dbname = 'benchmark_c';
my $host   = 'localhost' ;
my $port   =  '5432';
my $uname = "postgres";
my $pword = "postgres";

#** ** $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$por
+t", "$uname", "$pword");
#** ** $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname", "$uname", "$pword"
+);

$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname='benchmark_c';host='localhost'", "'
+postgres'", "'postgres'");

print "connected";

$stmt = $dbh->prepare("select appsyskey from appsys where upper(appsys
+name) = 'LOAD LEHMAN TRADES'");
$stmt->execute();

my $rslts = $stmt->fetchrow_hashref();

my $appsyskey = $rslts->{'appsyskey'};


print $appsyskey;

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Perl is actually blowing up. First time I have seen that. Makes me sad.
Your kind assistance is requested.

thanks
kd

In reply to connecting to postgresql with DBI by kevind0718

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