Two things:
Don't require your users to use Perl 5.8. Normally i just throw the tar ball away and move on, but in the case of this module i did a little source searching and found that Constants.pm contained a Perl 5.8 specific: the newest constant.pm module. "The most recent version '1.04' of the module 'constant' comes with the current version of perl (5.8.0)." 
use constant {DBX_CURSOR_RANDOM => 0, DBX_CURSOR_FORWARD => 1};

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i recommend changing that code to the more backward compatible: 
use constant DBX_CURSOR_RANDOM  => 0;
use constant DBX_CURSOR_FORWARD => 1;

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The second item is your use of AUTOLOAD in DBX.pm. Always define a DESTROY subroutine, even if it is empty and does nothing. When a DBX object is 'terminated', AUTOLOAD will be needlessly called.

Finally, while i certainly do not mind this module being available, i probably won't be using it for the same reasons that rdfield, Tomte, and Aristotle mentioned. If i want another abstraction, i use Class::DBI. Someday i hope that Pixie will make it's way into my production code (i think).

One reason i probably won't use your module is because i really can't stand record pointer style interfaces, they remind me too much of my SQL Server 7 days. >P

DBI's selectall_arrayref and selectcol_arrayref have been more than enough for me to get database work done. Most of the time i just ship the resulting datastructures over to HTML::Template without even knowing what the field names are.

Thanks for contributing though, i for one appreciate it. :)

jeffa

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: DBX offers simplified access to the DBI by jeffa
in thread DBX offers simplified access to the DBI by batkins

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