Terrible idea.

I love Perl/DBI because I can do everything I need to do with several DBMSs,ing the same interface, and I don't like the idea of limiting Perl's acceptance by linking it to a single DBMS, no matter how good it could be, and I have my doubts abut the specific one you are proposing.

Sure, the PHP/MySQL curse is reason for grief, but why do you want to counter a wrong with a even bigger wrong?

I personally use Perl with Oracle, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite. And, guess what? Most of the problems I had with the DBI came from DBD::PostgreSQL, which seems to have a driver that is not fully DBD compliant (See this node for just an example). And surely you aren't proposing the usage of Pg instead of DBD::Pg, or are you?

Please, leave Perl as it is: a magnificent agnostic tool.

In reply to Re: Perl/PostgreSQL niche by rnahi
in thread Perl/PostgreSQL niche by gunzip

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