[Dbix-class] Perldoc holes

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:16:17PM +1100, Gavin Carr wrote:
> A couple of questions too:
> 
> - is it possible to update a column with a NULL? I expected
>   $foo->set_column(bar => undef) to do that, but that gives an
>   'eq' comparison error

That should work; a failing test case and/or patch would be most welcome.
 
> - the methods created by add_columns don't seem to be mutators,
>   just accessors - is the intent that set_column is used instead,
>   or is this a TODO item?

They're mutators as well.

> - is there an CDBI-like autoupdate mode yet?

Only in CDBICompat because I couldn't think of a better API; if you have
any suggestions I'd be interested to hear them. Note though that you should
be able to load just the autoupdate CDBICompat component; I don't think it
depends on anything else.

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