I'm sorry your initial search for a term didn't immediately give you what you're looking for, but the database layer of Perl is very mature, and if you looked at the docs for DBI, you would see that it uses drivers in the DBD namespace, and if you search DBD, postgres is in the first few results, under DBD::Pg. Just like NPM, having a word in your module namespace or description is probably not always very well correlated to module quality or whether it's actually related to that term, so a bit of active research is best to determine what should be used. Then again, I'm not sure NPM is known for providing mobile namespaces that allow third party modules to interact well in a pluggable way, which is quite common on CPAN.