Seems there are a lot of bugs and patches accumulating in the DBD::InterBase driver and the community already forked the code on github with many patches and fixes applied to the main code
I will create a renamed driver with the name DBD::Firebird in cpan from the above fork and i will apply all the patches and fix the bugs that were not fixed
The name Buzz Moschetti probably isn’t familiar to you. Buzz was the author of the Perl 4 database for Interbase known as Interperl.
Back in those days Perl 5 was barely a twinkle in Larry’s eye and database interfaces for Perl 4 required building a custom perl binary.
http://blog.timbunce.org/2010/07/08/reflections-on-perl-and-dbi-from-an-early-contributor/
ps: Interabase & Firebird contributed stable api not only in the c and Delphi/Lazarus world but also in the Perl one with one of the first best drivers
There is now support for the Firebird RDBMS in the most popular ORM for
Perl, DBIx::Class, as of version 0.08121 .
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::InterBase
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::ODBC::Firebird
Using the ODBC driver with DBD::ODBC is recommended.
There is also support for DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader, which is used to
dump schema definitions, as of version 0.06000 .
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader
This ORM is often used with the Catalyst web framework:
I have updated the tutorial for Firebird 2.1 Classic and Ubuntu Karmic Koala
Related to this question about how to do the perl driver install on Ubuntu Karmic
This plugin contains functions/mappings/commands to enable Vim to
access several databases , including Firebird
libdbi version 0.8.3 offers improved error handling, some additional string escaping functions, and a couple of minor bugfixes.
I’ve uploaded tarballs of the current libdbi and libdbi-drivers cvs
versions. Both will identify themselves as 0.8.3-pre1. I intend to
release them as 0.8.3 shortly, unless someone finds showstoppers.
