Hello, I'm in a situation where I have several database tables with identical structure (please don't ask me why), the application at runtime decides from which table to query. I'm using Class::DBI to map to the same perl classes. In my application code, I simply call the table() method before querying. This seems to be fine, except that if I query two tables with the same id, I got the same result. Is that a bug? or I'm doing something wrong?

Let me be more specific, say I have two tables Foo and Bar, each has the same columns: id, name. I have a standard perl object mapping to the table: 

package FooBar;

use strict;
use base 'Class::DBI';

FooBar->set_db('Main','dburl','user','password');
FooBar->table('Foo'); # Foo is the default table
FooBar->columns(Primary=> qw/id/ );
FooBar->columns(Other=> qw/name/ );

package main;
my $foo = FooBar->retrieve(1);
print $foo->name(), "\n";

FooBar->table('Bar'); #switch table
my $bar1 = FooBar->retrieve(1); # this give the same as $foo, it shoul
+dn't.
my $bar2 = FooBar->retrieve(2); # this is different

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and if I skip the first query, then $bar1 and $bar2 are correct.

In reply to Dynamically change tables for Class::DBI by johnnywang

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