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# $Id: README,v 1.10 1997/08/26 20:57:47 mergl Exp $
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# Portions Copyright (c) 1994,1995,1996,1997 Tim Bunce
# Portions Copyright (c) 1997                Edmund Mergl
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DESCRIPTION:
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This is version 0.62 of DBD-Pg.
DBD-Pg is a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5 using DBI.

For further information about DBI look at:
      http://www.fugue.com/dbi/



COPYRIGHT:
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You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.


IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS:
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Please send comments and bug-reports to <E.Mergl@bawue.de>

Please include the output of perl -v,
                         and perl -V,
           the version of PostgreSQL,
           the version of DBD-Pg,
           and the version of DBI
in your bug-report.


REQUIREMENTS:
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  - build, test and install Perl 5         (at least 5.002)
  - build, test and install the DBI module (at least 0.89)
  - build, test and install PostgreSQL     (at least 6.1.1)


PLATFORMS:
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  This release of DBD-Pg has been developed using Linux 2.0 with 
  dynamic loading for the perl extensions. Let me know, if there 
  are any problems with other platforms.


INSTALLATION:
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The Makefile checks the environment variable POSTGRES_HOME as well 
some standard locations, to find the root directory of your Postgres 
installation.
 
1.   perl Makefile.PL
2.   make
3.   make test
4.   make install

( 1. to 3. as normal user, not as root ! )


TESTING:
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Run 'make test'.
Note, that the user running this script must have been created with
the access rights to create databases *AND* users ! Do not run this
script as root !

If you are using the shared library libpq.so, make sure, your dynamic 
loader is able to find libpq.so. With Linux the command /sbin/ldconfig -v 
should tell you, where it finds libpq.so. If not, you need to add an 
appropriate entry to /etc/ld.so.conf or to the environment variable 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Some linux distributions have an incomplete perl installation.
If you have compile errors like "XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK undeclared", make a
          'find /usr/lib/perl5 -name XSUB.h -print'
If this file is not present, you need to recompile and reinstall perl.

SGI users: if you get segmentation faults make sure, you use the malloc which 
           comes with perl when compiling perl (the default is not to).
           "David R. Noble" <drnoble@engsci.sandia.gov>


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   Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>                     August 26, 1997

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