Additional Software Enhancements

The following additional software features and enhancements have been added to the Solaris 10 10/08 release.

Perl Database Interface and Perl PostgreSQL Driver

Perl Database Interface (DBI) is a generic database interface to talk to specific database back-end. DBD::Pg is a PostgreSQL driver which enables Perl applications to interact with PostgreSQL database through DBI.

For more information, see the following:

• http://dbi.perl.org

• http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.58/DBI.pm

PostgreSQL 8.3

PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). The important features of PostgreSQL 8.3 version are integrated text search, XML support, and performance improvements in many areas.

For more information, see the community web site, http://www.postgresql.org/.