CGI::Session::Driver::postgresql(3)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       CGI::Session::Driver::postgresql(3)

NAME

       CGI::Session::Driver::postgresql - PostgreSQL driver for CGI::Session

SYNOPSIS

	   use CGI::Session;
	   $session = new CGI::Session("driver:PostgreSQL", undef, {Handle=>$dbh});

DESCRIPTION

       CGI::Session::PostgreSQL is a CGI::Session driver to store session data in a PostgreSQL table.

STORAGE

       Before you can use any DBI-based session drivers you need to make sure compatible database table is created for CGI::Session to work with.
       Following command will produce minimal requirements in most SQL databases:

	   CREATE TABLE sessions (
	       id CHAR(32) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
	       a_session BYTEA NOT NULL
	   );

       and within your code use:

	   use CGI::Session;
	   $session = new CGI::Session("driver:PostgreSQL", undef, {Handle=>$dbh, ColumnType=>"binary"});

       Please note the ColumnType argument. PostgreSQL's text type has problems when trying to hold a null character. (Known as "" in Perl, not
       to be confused with SQL NULL). If you know there is no chance of ever having a null character in the serialized data, you can leave off the
       ColumnType attribute. Using a BYTEA column type and "ColumnType => 'binary'" is recommended when using Storable as the serializer or if
       there's any possibility that a null value will appear in any of the serialized data.

       To use different column names, change the 'create table' statement, and then simply do this:

	   $s = new CGI::Session('driver:pg', undef,
	   {
	       TableName=>'session',
	       IdColName=>'my_id',
	       DataColName=>'my_data',
	       DataSource=>'dbi:pg:dbname=project',
	   });

       or

	   $s = new CGI::Session('driver:pg', undef,
	   {
	       TableName=>'session',
	       IdColName=>'my_id',
	       DataColName=>'my_data',
	       Handle=>$dbh,
	   });

       For more details see CGI::Session::Driver::DBI, parent class.

       Also see sqlite driver, which exercises different method for dealing with binary data.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Cosimo Streppone. All rights reserved. This library is free software and can be modified and distributed under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

       Cosimo Streppone <cosimo@cpan.org>, heavily based on the CGI::Session::MySQL driver by Sherzod Ruzmetov, original author of CGI::Session.

       Matt LeBlanc contributed significant updates for the 4.0 release.

LICENSING

       For additional support and licensing see CGI::Session

perl v5.16.3							    2008-07-16				       CGI::Session::Driver::postgresql(3)