I have build 817. Are you saying that should be good?

Yep ... at least it doesn't suffer from known (significant) problems that afflicted build 816.

Perhaps someone at the dbdpg-general mailing list can provide advice. (See the README that comes with the DBD::Pg source for details - http://search.cpan.org/src/DBDPG/DBD-Pg-1.49/README .)

Cheers,
Rob