I just started trying to use DBD::MonetDB and ran into a couple of issues. I'm not sure where you prefer to get reports so I thought I'd send it here first.
First, although both the version on CPAN and the version on my machine, presumably from the MonetDB installation, both claim to be version 0.09, they are different. IMHO, this is a Bad Idea. Having the up-to-date version on CPAN is desirable since that's what Perl programmers expect. Having two versions with the same number is essential, since otherwise CPAN's and Perl's dependency mechanisms will fail and bug reporting becomes a real problem.
Second, and what caused me to investigate more carefully, when I typed in the first example program for DBD::monetdb I saw:
$ ./monetdb-test-1.pl DBI connect('','',...) failed: merovingian: no such database 'demo', please create it first
That doesn't surprise me, because I didn't create a demo database. But I was surprised when I couldn't find any facility to name the database in the documentation or the code. Except when I actually read the installed code as opposed to the published version on CPAN I see that there is. So please add docs. I've suggested a patch below.
Cheers, Dave
PS The code will compile a little faster if you use __END__
--- /usr/lib/perl5/DBD/monetdb.pm 2010-03-22 16:22:51.000000000 +0000 +++ perl/DBD/monetdb.pm 2010-04-14 15:18:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -670,6 +670,8 @@
1;
+__END__ + =head1 NAME
DBD::monetdb - MonetDB Driver for DBI @@ -783,6 +785,7 @@ $dsn = 'dbi:monetdb:'; $dsn = "dbi:monetdb:host=$host"; $dsn = "dbi:monetdb:host=$host;port=$port"; + $dsn = "dbi:monetdb:host=$host;database=$database";
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password);
@@ -794,7 +797,11 @@
=item port
-The port where MonetDB daemon listens to. Default for MonetDB is 50000. +The port where MonetDB daemon listens. Default for MonetDB is 50000. + +=item database + +The name of the database to connect to.
=back