I appreciate the time you've taken to respond, CountZero. I have some comments (as usual :-) )

1. While what you say is true in most cases, I can think of several examples where this doesn't apply. UNIONs, ALTER TABLE (while rare), and invocation of stored procedures in some DBs would fall into this category. Also, vendor-specific commands like SHOW TABLE STATUS in MySQL would require arbitrary SQL statements. If DBIx::Class can do this using the standard syntax, I'd be thrilled to learn how.

2. eval would work and it's a good suggestion, but it's inelegant and really, error handling should be built in. DBIx::Class seems well-written, at least from the outside, so I was hoping this was something on which I could rely.

3. Some DBs don't support views and this seems like a very hackish workaround for what should be a simple and common task. I did, however, discover that I can do most of what I want from DBIx::Class::Manual::Joining. I'm just not sure how to make a ResultSet that does this by default.

In reply to Re^4: Migrating to DBIx::Class by DBX
in thread Migrating to DBIx::Class by DBX

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