using find_or_create in add_to_

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In my application, I almost always want to do find_or_create instead of 
create. If there's already data in the database that matches the data I 
have, I want to refer to it, not create a duplicate record.

So far, I've just been taking care to use find_or_create, and even 
overriding create to give me a warning if I forget :)

Now I've come across a case where I want to use add_to_*, like 
$obj->add_to_a_related_table({ some => values })

Now C-DBI-R-HasMany::_method_add_to calls create() so that's not what I 
want. Has anybody got a neat way of dealing with this situation?

Thanks, Dave