[VPM] database frontend

[Darren Duncan]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> At the time we decided to do this, Pg was the best solution for our
> needs. We didn't need the extra abstraction that DBI provides. It was
> also pretty quick. There were some other issues that my co-worker at the
> time looked into and decided we should just use Pg.
>
> For the may term, I will be installing Perl::DBI and DBI::Pg.
> Our CGI's will probably still use Pg though as we have a few modules
> that depend on it (including a nifty SQLFail routine and various others)
> and it works well and fast.

I don't know for sure, but I think that the current version of Pg is
actually a layer on top of DBD::Pg, in which case with the current version
you would likely get better performance using the latter. -- Darren Duncan