Trouble establishing a dialogue between Perl and PostgreSQL

DigitalKitty has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all.

I recently upgraded my PostgreSQL install to version 8.2.6 (win32). After doing so, I installed the following modules (DBI was installed previously).

When attempting to connect to a database with DBD::Pg, the connection hung and only by pressing Ctrl-C was I able to terminate the program.

Assuming something might be wrong with the module, I tried DBD::PgPP in a very simple test script (please see below):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

my $db = DBI->connect('dbi:PgPP:testdb', 'postgres', 'xxxxxxxxx');

if( $db ) { 
   print "Connected!\n";
}

else {
   print "Nope. Sorry.\n";
}
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After doing so, I immediately noticed the following message:

C:\Perl2\bin>perl test_pg.pl
DBI connect('testdb','postgres',...) failed: Couldn't connect to /tmp/
+.s.PGSQL.5432: at C:/Perl2/site/lib/DBD/PgPP.pm line 124 at test_pg.p
+l line 5
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Is there a configuration setting I need to modify? For testing purposes, I was able to connect to the database with both python and ruby.

Thanks,

~Katie

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