Re: Connect to postgresql database using Perl - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Connect to postgresql database using Perl
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Msg-id 4BB2FD36.5050808@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Connect to postgresql database using Perl  (dipti shah <shahdipti1980@gmail.com>)
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dipti shah 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.
>
> use DBI;
> $DB_name    = 'mydb';
> $DB_user    = 'postgres';
> $DB_pwd     = '';
> $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$DB_name","$DB_user","$DB_pwd");
> ...

see http://search.cpan.org/~turnstep/DBD-Pg-2.16.1/Pg.pm#connect
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Eturnstep/DBD-Pg-2.16.1/Pg.pm#connect>

add ;host=hostname-or-ip to the connect string...

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