On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:25 AM, dipti shah <shahdipti1980@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Guys. DBI works fine. I have written below code but it executes only
> on the server where I installed postgresql. Is there any way to run this
> code from remote host. I get an error when trying to run it from remote
> host. I think it is obvious because in below code there is no information
> where to connect to. Could you please help me out.
Hi, Dipti.
Have a look at the DBI documentation. As you suspect, you will need
to specify the host.
Sean
> use DBI;
> $DB_name = 'mydb';
> $DB_user = 'postgres';
> $DB_pwd = '';
> $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$DB_name","$DB_user","$DB_pwd");
> if ( !defined $dbh ) { die "Cannot connect to database!\n"; }
> $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM mytable");
> $sth->execute();
> while ( ($id,$name) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) { print "$id\t\t $name \n";
> }
> $sth->finish();
> $dbh->disconnect();
>
> remote-host# perl pg-connect.pl
> DBI connect('dbname=sysdb','postgres',...) failed: could not connect to
> server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? at
> pg-connect.pl line 7
> Cannot connect to database!
>
> Thanks,
> Dipti
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> 2010/3/31 dipti shah <shahdipti1980@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Could anyone please provide me an example to connect to a postgresql
>> > database using Perl language and accessing the tables, schemas, and
>> > other
>> > postgresql objects.
>> >
>>
>> http://www.felixgers.de/teaching/perl/perl_DBI.html
>> http://structbio.vanderbilt.edu/chazin/wisdom/dbi_howto.html
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pavel Stehule
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dipti
>> >
>
>
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