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When you say it handles the foreign keys, do you mean automatically? How does it do so?

When you create a table using Creator,
Code:
$creator->fk(table2 => { foo_fk => "foo" })

it adds the foreign key relations information to the .def file.
Code:
'fk' => {
'demo_Links' => {
'LinkID' => 'ID'
}
},

So, whenever you use
Code:
$DB->table([qw/table1 table2/])

the proper JOIN language is added to the generated SQL, so you can do:

Code:
$db->select()
instead of:
Code:
$db->select({"table1.foo_fk" => \"table2.foo"});

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Does that mean the creator->fk function is worthless?
Nope. See above.

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Does it only create foreign keys for links tables (not custom tables for new plugins?)
No, it works for ALL tables created using GT::SQL::Creator (standard and plugins), provided that the fk() function is used when creating the table.

Hope that helps.

Philip
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Thread Creating Table with Foreign Key slg_saravanan 3581 Sep 7, 2006, 12:09 AM
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