[Dbix-class] DBIx::Class::ResultSet::RecursiveUpdate - announcement and RFC

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

A reply after having a bit sleep.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Daniel Westermann-Clark <dwc at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2008-09-28 17:17:33 +0200, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>> update_or_create relies on find - if you don't pass the PK - then
>> find will issue an unrestricted search and return a random row (and
>> issue the warning), then that random row will be updated, create
>> will never be called.  This is assuming you add { key => primary} -
>> if you don't do that then find will fall back to the old behaviour
>> and also return a random row.
>
> That's also assuming you don't have any other unique constraints
> defined. At least, that's how it was designed.
>

OK - so I am rewording my clause:

RecursiveUpdate does not require that you have additional unique
constraints on tables with auto_increment primary keys like the
original update_or_create does.

Is that acceptable?


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