and here's the proposed patch hopefully my english is good enough.
Tom
Index: DBI.pm
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--- DBI.pm (Revision 2381)
+++ DBI.pm (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -4014,7 +4014,17 @@
In which case the array is copied and each value decremented before
passing to C</fetchall_arrayref>.
+The following example demonstrates the power of this method by fetching
+all rows as an array-ref and addressing the row's column as hash-keys:
+ my $emps = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("select * from emp order by ename", { Slice => {} } );
+ foreach my $emp ( @{ $emps } )
+ {
+ print "Employee: " . $emp->{ename} . "\n";
+ }
+
+When using an empty HashRef as Slice-Value all columns will be return in the Hash.
+
=item C<selectall_hashref>
$hash_ref = $dbh->selectall_hashref($statement, $key_field);
