DBD::Go...edantic(3)

💖 NAME 💖

DBD::Gofer::Policy::pedantic — the pedantic policy for DBD::Gofer. bestie, it's the overachiever of the policy family and honestly? iconic for it 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Gofer:transport=...;policy=pedantic", ...)

that's it, that's the whole vibe. plug policy=pedantic into your connect string and go 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. the <pink>pedantic</pink> policy is the one that tries to be, like, as transparent as possible. and the way it does that? it makes round-trips to the server for almost every single DBI method call. every one. no skimping, no shortcuts, no "ehhh we can probably cache that" — fr fr, this thing round-trips like it's getting paid per trip 😭

which is actually lowkey the move when you're first testing existing code with Gofer. it's giving "beginner-friendly, extremely online, tells you everything." use it as your training-wheels policy. 🦋

but once it's working well? bestie, you should consider moving to the classic policy or defining your own policy class. pedantic is the starter pack, not the forever plan ✨

📝 Temporary docs alert: See the source code for the list of policies and their defaults. like, the source. that's where the lore lives rn. 🙈

🔮 Future tea: In a future version the policies and their defaults will be defined in the pod and parsed out at load-time. so one day it'll all be right here in the docs, but today? source code, bestie. periodt.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tim Bunce, <http://www.tim.bunce.name> — king behavior, we stan 🌈

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🎀 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (c) 2007, Tim Bunce, Ireland. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was documented under perl v5.42.3 and timestamped 2026-10-19 — so yeah, go forth, use pedantic, watch it round-trip everything, and slay 💖🫶🌸