Help regarding ActiveState's PPM repository module for DBD-pg -- which is currently unavailable!

Hello!

I sit on The Perl Foundation's Steering Committee as the Donor Relations 
Chair and I may have meet some of you at previous YAPC's.

First, I want to personally THANK YOU ALL for supporting Perl and the 
Perl Community with your programming skills!  Secondly, I thank you for 
supporting PostgreSQL, which I'm anxious to use with my version of Perl!

I've just recently started trying to work with PostgreSQL and want the 
full capabilities (or the most I can get) of the database using Perl, 
but I'm forced to use ActiveState by my employer for various security 
and IT policy reasons.

I'm running ActivePerl 5.12.2 and cannot find your driver using their 
PPM module installer.

More research yields this:   http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-Pg/    
and clicking on red ! buttons shows why.  I notice that this driver is 
not available for ANY recent ActiveState version and I think it should be.

I found this same situation was true for DBD-mysql, but I intervened and 
connected the module author and ActiveState and at least now the 
ActiveState DBD-mysql driver has some working versions that can be 
installed and work fine!
Please see  http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-mysql/

Not just for myself, but for the greater ActiveState Perl community, may 
I please ask for your assistance in working with ActiveState to school 
them on how to get your module to compile for their module repositories 
so more of us can use PostgreSQL more fully?

These are two GREAT people at ActiveState who can either help you or 
direct you to those who can help to get your module working with 
ActivePerl !

Jan Dubois at   [email protected]

Jeff Hobbs  at   [email protected]

If I can be of any other assistance to you, please email me!  I plan to 
attend YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.  I hope some of 
you will be attending!

Sincerely,
Lawrence K. Hixson
Principal Systems Engineer/DBA
U.S. National Weather Service
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
301-713-0022 x190