[GUSDEV] dbiDsn weirdness

[Fernan A. <fe...@ii...>]

Hello, again,

I'm having a problem with my gus.config file, and more
specifically with the dbiDsn string.

I have a test database (testdb) and I can connect to this
database either using perl or java (using minimal programs
that just connect to the DB) or in a terminal using psql.

However, the dbiDsn that I use succesfully in my scripts
(dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb) doesn't work when used in the
gus.config file.

The details are below. Should I file a bug report?

Fernan

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Details
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perl: 5.8.8
DBI: 1.5.0
DBD-Pg: 1.43
GUS: SVN snapshot from 11.Apr.2006

dbiDsn in gus.config:
dbiDsn=dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb

output of 'build GUS install -append':
[exec] Can't connect to data source "dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb", no database driver specified and DBI_DSN env var not set at /scratch/shared/GUS-11.Apr.2006/gus_home/lib/perl/GUS/ObjRelP/DbiDatabase.pm line 173

Just to test, I tried the following dbiDsn, which I found
mentioned in one bug report 
dbiDsn=dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb;port=5432

and now 'build GUS install -append' went through without
errors. 5432 is the default port for postgres, so it
shouldn't need to be set explicitly. This made me think that
the problem was the missing ';' and so I tried the following:
dbiDsn=dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb;

which also worked quite nicely. Which brings us to the question:
is this a documentation bug? Or a software bug? 

I can file a bug report and either fix it (documentation) or
help as much as I can (software).