Protoco...onstants(3)

💅 NAME

Okay bestie, so this is Protocol::Database::PostgreSQL::Constants — the Perl manual page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it is literally just some constants used in the PostgreSQL protocol. That's the whole gig. Iconic, lowkey.

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✨ DESCRIPTION

It exports some constants — mostly SSL-related ones. Ngl, that's the entire description. Short and sweet, main character energy 🎀

Heads up though: in this page, "SSL" actually means TLS. So when you see SSL anywhere below, just know it's the modern one, fr fr.

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🫶 EXPORTS

Here's the whole list, no gatekeeping 💖

• SSL_DISABLE — do not use SSL. Like, at all. None. Zero. Nope 🙈
• SSL_PREFER — use SSL if we can. Chill vibes, opportunistic 🌸
• SSL_REQUIRE — only use SSL. It's SSL or nothing, periodt 👑

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🦋 SSL_NAME_MAP

This one's the mapping from plain text words over to the SSL_* constants. The way that it just translates your cute little strings into the real deal ✨

• disable
• prefer
• require

That's the whole map. Three words, all lowercase, all slaying 💅

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👑 AUTHOR

Tom Molesworth <TEAM@cpan.org>

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🌈 LICENSE

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

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And that's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 🍓 Cute little sign-off for the record: this is from perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, and it's the Protoco...onstants(3) page (yes, the title got truncated by the formatter, not by me 😭). Bye pookie, go write some protocol code 💜