So the short answer is no, DBIC does not support what you want to do. It’s everything or nothing. You can create every table in your schema easily with $schema->deploy. Just not a single table.

It is easy to use straight DBI to create a single table and you have access to DBI through DBIC. The most relevant doc is probably DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI. Look for the part with $schema->storage->dbh_do(...)

There might be some fun shortcuts to getting the table definition and “doing” it through the schema but I don’t know them just now.