Re: running dbaccess via perl

When did you ask for help compiling DBD::Informix on AIX? I don't recall seeing such a request, and would have been very happy to try and help. Andrea Ferguson wrote: > I have a perl script which will be doing many selects and inserts to an > Informix database at various times in the script. I would prefer to use > DBI and DBD::Informix but we have been unable to compile it on AIX. The > only other solution workable I could come up with was to run dbaccess > using IPC::Open3 so that I could keep dbaccess-specific STDIN, STDOUT, > and STDERR filehandles open during the entire time the script is > running. (Running dbaccess for each transaction would add an > unacceptable amount of processing time.) > > What concerns me is the potential for deadlock and the fact that there > might be some as-yet-unknown condition that would cause the script to > never exit the while loops that read the stdout and stderr filehandles. > So while I have a working script, I am not entirely comfortable with > this approach and was wondering if anyone knows either where I can get > an already compiled version of DBD::Informix (for AIX 4.2 and higher) or > can suggest another solution. > > Thanks. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.62 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>