Thanks for your suggestions.
However, I have no need to make this work at home. It would be helpful if I could make it work at the office, where unfortunately I can't change the OS (it's Win 2K and there's nothing I can do about it) and I can't freely access the web either (I can do some downloads but not everything). The post you pointed me to encounters an "upstream" problem (compared to mine) : the driver cannot be located. In my case, the driver is located and loaded but it looks like there's some incompatibility between the various libraries since perl.exe crashes

Regards,
Sorin

In reply to Re^2: DBD-Pg.dll crashes on Win2K w/ ActiveState 5.8 by scr53005
in thread DBD-Pg.dll crashes on Win2K w/ ActiveState 5.8 by scr53005

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