INSTALLATION AND USAGE INSTRUCTIONS * Install SQL::Catalog perl Makefile.PL make make install make test is not too easy to do.. Sigh. You will need to download and install SQL::Statement unless you are using CPAN.pm which will detect it as a prereq and install it for you. * Use or create and contribute a script to create a table named sql_catalog. Scripts for Postgresql and Informix are provided. * Set your environmental variables to connect to the database where the sql_catalog table was created. here are mine. And yes, the password is an empty string in my case. setenv SQL_CATALOG_DSN dbi:Pg:dbname=mydb setenv SQL_CATALOG_USR postgres setenv SQL_CATALOG_PAS setenv SQL_CATALOG_STO Cache::FileCache setenv SQL_CATALOG_OPT "namespace => 'MyNamespace', default_expires_in => 600" * Copy the sql_* scripts to a place on your $PATH * Let 'er rip.