Proxying doesn't exactly work like that, because DBI creates objects of other classes, and your execute is defined in the wrong class.

There's a section on "subclassing the DBI" on the DBI manpage that lists in careful detail what you have to do. Basically, you'll have to create three classes named similarly to the DBI triad, and then add your execute override to the statement-handle derived class.

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