BUU, you're right, of course, that you could do this. And I knew that when I posted. And I deliberately left it out. Figured it was best not to confuse the poor OP with dangerous things like this ;-)

Oh, and I think you need a "::" in front of "dbq":

  *{ref($dbh)."::dbq"} = sub { print "I am dbq" };
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