Re: Trying to install DBD::Pg on Windows XP

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> The directions in the README got me a DBD::Pg that could not connect to
> a database at all... (the tests should not pass if it does that!)

Yes, those directions are outdated and need to be updated. So feel free
to submit a patch! We have very few people on the list running Windows,
thus it doesn't get as much attention as the *nix side of things.

> More information on what tests fail and the system settings are in the
> attached file.

The good news is that none of the failing tests look to be of extreme importance.

> C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:238:1: warning: "isnan" redefined

This should probably be cleaned up at some point. It's unclear if we can do it
at the DBD::Pg level however.

> t/02attribs.t ....... 1/249 DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR:  character 0xc480
> of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "WIN1252" at t/02attribs.t line 431.

I just made a commit (12766) which should fix both instances of this problem,
by simply skipping the test unless the server encoding is UTF8.

> #   Failed test 'Trace flag 'pglogin' works as expected with
> DBD::Pg->parse_trace_flag() at t/04misc.t line 225.
> #     got: 'Login connection string:
> # Connection complete
> #     DESTROY for DBI::db=HASH(0x11774a4) ignored - handle not initialised

Not sure what is going on here: some interaction of Windows + DBI is
causing what I assume is a mostly harmless warning: assumed because
all of the other test pass. :)

> Error removing dbdpg_test_5GWCPRtst at C:/STRAWB~1/perl/lib/File/Temp.pm line 89

Some sort of Windows/File::Temp bug. I don't see any bugs there related to it -
can you tell us what version you are using?

> C:\DBD-Pg-2.13.1>set TEST_VERBOSE=1
>
> C:\DBD-Pg-2.13.1>dmake test

This did not seem to work, FWIW.

Thanks for the detailed report. Hopefully somebody on the list will recognize
that "handle not initialized" error.

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