App::S...irebird(3pm)

💖 App::S...irebird(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation for this absolute icon of a module 🦋 the page header calls it App::S...irebird(3pm) (yes it got truncated, the full thing is App::Sqitch::Engine::firebird, we love an abbreviation moment) and honestly? it's giving "small file, huge job." let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

App::Sqitch::Engine::firebird — the Sqitch Firebird Engine 🦋🔥

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

the whole vibe in one line, no cap:

my $firebird = App::Sqitch::Engine->load( engine => 'firebird' );

that's it. that's the incantation. load the engine, say the word firebird, boom 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, App::Sqitch::Engine::firebird provides the Firebird storage engine for Sqitch. that's the whole description and honestly it ate 💅 it hooks Firebird up so Sqitch can do its deploy/verify/revert thing. periodt.

🧚 INTERFACE 🧚

👑 Instance Methods 👑

connection_string

constructs a connection string from a database URI, specifically so it can get handed off to isql. that's its one job and it does it flawlessly ✨

isql

returns a list containing the isql client and the options that need to be passed to it. this one is used internally when executing scripts — so like, backstage, not the main character on your screen, but the main character of the whole operation iykyk 🫶

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

give these legends their flowers 💐

• David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
• Ștefan Suciu <stefan@s2i2.ro>

📄 LICENSE 📄

the legal bit, and bestie we are NOT paraphrasing the license, here it is word for word, exactly as written 📜✨

Copyright (c) 2012-2026 David E. Wheeler, 2012-2021 iovation Inc.

Copyright (c) 2013 Ștefan Suciu

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

⚠️ fr fr, that ALL CAPS part is not a vibe check, it's real — "AS IS", no warranty, no promises, don't come for them if it breaks 🙈

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and that's the page bestie 🎀 this doc ships with perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-26, and it lives under the name App::S...irebird(3pm) — go forth and migrate your Firebird databases, you absolute icon 👑💜