BTW and slight OT, I gave up on "fetching" a couple of years ago after I read gmax's wonderful DBI Recipes. No prepping or executing needed.

my $stmt = qq/SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE id = ?/;
my $result = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($stmt, {Slice => {}}, $subscribe
+r_id);
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You end up with an AoH, which is perfect for me as I'm usually populating a loop in HTML::Template