[Dbix-class] What is a cascading update?

[Mark Blythe]

On 5/17/06, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> Mark Blythe wrote:
> > Hi ... While chasing down some strange behavior in my application last
> > night, I found myself in
> > DBIx:::Class::Relationship::CascadeActions::update.  Cascading deletes I
> > understand -- that's fairly common.  But an update?  While I was able to
> > work around the issue I was having, it would be helpful to understand
> > what exactly a cascading update is.
> >
> > In my case, it was being triggered when I updated a parent record in a
> > might_have relationship.  Is this intended to handle any columns in the
> > related table that may have been updated via a proxied accessor in the
> > parent class?
>
> Pretty much exactly that, yes. It does currently sometimes do an unnecessary
> SELECT though, which will be fixed in 0.06003

Cool, that was my next question. :-)  Thanks.