Protoco...Request(3)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page that literally shows up as Protoco...Request(3) in your terminal — like, the whole thing got cut off mid-name, iconic honestly — and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, iykyk 🎀

The full name, in all its main-character glory, is:

Protocol::Database::PostgreSQL::Backend::AuthenticationRequest

and it's an authentication request message. That's the whole vibe. That's the whole name. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: there is literally nothing here. no cap. The DESCRIPTION section is empty — the manpage sets it up and then just... leaves. 💀

Not me refreshing looking for lore that isn't coming. It's giving minimalism. It's giving "the name said it all." So yeah, no description was written, and I'm not about to invent one for you, bestie — that would be lying and lying is not cute. 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the mastermind, the icon, the reason this page exists:

• Tom Molesworth <TEAM@cpan.org> 💌

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🌸 LICENSE 🌸

Copyright Tom Molesworth 2010-2019. Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself. 🫶

fr fr, those are the actual terms — same terms as Perl itself, no substitutions, no vibes-based reinterpretation, periodt. 💅

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⭐ sign-off ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, absolutely ate 💖 this little number was rendered by perl v5.42.2 and stamped 2026-02-15, so go forth and authenticate your requests, you gorgeous nerd 🌈🎀