Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, then my suggestion would be to read the manual, especially: 
       Changing Your Column Accessor Method Names


       accessor_name / mutator_name

       If you want to change the name of your accessors, you need
       to provide an accessor_name() method, which will convert a
       column name to a method name.

       e.g: if your local naming convention was to prepend the
       word 'customer' to each column in the 'customer' table, so
       that you had the columns 'customerid', 'customername' and
       'customerage', you would end up with code filled with
       calls to $customer->customerid, $customer->customername,
       $customer->customerage etc. By creating an accessor_name
       method like:



               sub accessor_name {
                       my ($class, $column) = @_;
                       $column =~ s/^customer//;
                       return $column;
               }

       Your methods would now be the simpler $customer->id, $cus­
       tomer->name and $customer->age etc.

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(Direct copy&paste from the perldoc)

Is that what you were looking for?

C.

In reply to Re: Class::DBI, reblessing and primary key names by castaway
in thread Class::DBI, reblessing and primary key names by glwtta

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