Re: Using TEMP columns when the object is already in memory

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On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:36, Charles Bailey wrote:
> There's also the larger question of why someone's calling _init() when the 
> object already exists.

No one calls _init() directly, but if you do a search() or retrieve() or
anything else that returns CDBI objects it will call _init() internally
for each one.  That's why I put the single instance code there, at Tim
Bunce's suggestion.

> Prior to 0.96, they'd get an entirely new object 
> this way, and the two (or more) copies would "compete" for the DB row.

Yes, that's the problem that this change corrected.  It was too easy to
do this by accident before.

- Perrin