What you're describing is (if I recall correctly) a 'factory' pattern. Try something like this (untested code) 
package TheDb;

use strict;
use TheDb::PlainText;
use TheDb::SQL;

sub new {
   my $class = shift;
   my $type  = shift;

   my $full_name = "TheDB::" . $type;
   return $full_name->new;
}

1;

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Basically you write one package that uses in all the others. The new method for that package just creates an object of the type you ask for and returns it. Each of your 'TheDB::' object inherits from, say, 'TheDB::Base'.

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In reply to Re: Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by maverick
in thread Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by skazat

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