You don't come right out and say it, (and I don't want to commit any logical fallacies here), but your implication is that there is a direct, positive correlation between ease of installation and the quality of a product.

Wow! That's one hell of a criteria for determining quality. I take it you then believe that 1) IIS is a top quality web server and 2) IE Explorer is a top quality Browser. I guess we should just ignore the fact that IIS security has more holes in it than Sonny Corleone at a tollbooth (as Dennis Miller would put it) and that Explorer is so bad that CERT says "use anything but...". Yeah. That's a criteria I'm going to rush out and adopt.

Your other implication is that a product cannot be decent unless there is a price tag attached. If this were the case, then why the hell are you even using Perl?

Finally, as to your postgreSQL hell. Let me get this straight:
1) You're trying to use an interface which wasn't even written by the postgreSQL development team, but rather by a third party.
2) It isn't "working" for you.
3) Therefore, postgreSQL is a poor product?

Yeah, that's putting blame in the right place.

Here's a question for you: Real developers and read sysAdmins get it done. The rest just bitch and moan. Which group do you fall into?

davidj