p p wrote: >With DefaultFormatter I can simply do: Eww, global variable. You can do that in your modules, and so can anyone else in theirs, but if you both do it and your modules end up in the same process then you'll step on each other's toes.
You really want to find a more convenient way for you to explicitly attach a particular formatter to each column that you declare. Such as write a wrapper for the DBIC stuff. -zefram