Thank you all for your comments and suggestions!
~kj
On Saturday 16 October 2010 8:13:12 am Kynn Jones wrote:
> I want to code a Perl function (part of a Perl library) for determining the
> existence of a particular database (in a given host/port).
>
> One way would be to just attempt making a connection to it, trapping any
> errors upon failure (wit
On 16/10/2010 16:13, Kynn Jones wrote:
I want to code a Perl function (part of a Perl library) for determining
the existence of a particular database (in a given host/port).
One way would be to just attempt making a connection to it, trapping any
errors upon failure (with eval), or discarding th
> Is there an even faster way to check for a database's existence that does
> not require establishing a connection?
> (Maybe this question would be more suitable for the pgsql-performance list?)
No. You have to connect to some database in particular to do anything.
That's why the postgres databas
I want to code a Perl function (part of a Perl library) for determining the
existence of a particular database (in a given host/port).
One way would be to just attempt making a connection to it, trapping any
errors upon failure (with eval), or discarding the connection upon success.
This approach
