After spending about an hour attempting to figure out why Class::DBI was croaking on a package that was defining a table with 2 foreign keys I realized that multiple foreign keys in one table isn't supported by Class::DBI.

Well, that's fine -- I'm just giving CDBI a test run, and I'm glad I found this little quirk out early in my usage with it.

In this test application (a bookmarks/links app) I had 3 tables, `users`, `category`, and `links`. The link table contained the columns `id`,`category_id`,`user_id`,`url`,etc...

My question is, why are multiple foreign keys such an evil thing? And what would be a better way to design this schema?




Update:Okay, I got it working, despite the problme I *thought* I had. reading this helped me out.

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