RE: [cobalt-developers] Where to start with Postgres

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To be honest best to install MySQL and not to touch the postgres database at
all.  Cobalt uses it and if you break it you will almost certainly end up
either spending hours trying to fix it or reinstalling the box - both are
annoying to say the least.  Install MySQL with pkg from
http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com and if gets hosed reinstall it - simple and quick.

Gavin

> I think I've managed to create a Postgres Database - but I don't
> know how to
> access it from a Perl CGI. On other web sites I use DBI interface
> to MySQL -
> but I want to avoid installing stuff!
>
> I can find hardly any documentation on Postgres for the RAQ4 - I can't be
> the only person developing data driven web sites on these boxes!!
> Can I ?!!