this is both a notice and a question ... this was just posted to the dbi list. anyone familiar with it?
NAME
DBD::PgPP - Pure Perl PostgreSQL driver for the DBI
SYNOPSIS
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:PgPP:dbname=$dbname', '', ''');
# See the DBI module documentation for full details
DESCRIPTION
DBD::PgPP is a Pure Perl client interface for the PostgreSQL database.
This module implements network protocol between server and client of
PostgreSQL, thus you don't need external PostgreSQL client library like
libpq for this module to work. It means this module enables you to
connect to PostgreSQL server from some operation systems which
PostgreSQL is not ported. How nifty!
SUPPORT OPERATING SYSTEM
This module has been tested on these OSes.
* Mac OS 9
with MacPerl5.6.1r1 built for PowerPC
* Mac OS X
with perl v5.6.0 built for darwin
* Windows2000
with ActivePerl5.6.1 build631.
* FreeBSD 4.6
with perl v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd
* FreeBSD 3.4
with perl v5.6.1 built for i386-freebsd
with perl v5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd
* Linux
with perl v5.005_03 built for ppc-linux
* Solaris 2.6 (SPARC)
with perl5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris.
with perl5.004_04 built for sun4-solaris.
Can use on Solaris2.6 with perl5.004_04, although *make test* is
failure.
LIMITATION
* Can't use 'crypt' authentication in a part of FreeBSD.
* Can't use the 'Kerberos v4/5' authentication.
* Can't use the SSL Connection.
* Can't use BLOB data.
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
L<DBI>, L<IO::Socket>
