Filing report at Alan's request.
While this is grinding, I'll try to work up an isolated
test case that doesn't involve 20 tables.

Host's PHP is actually 4.2.3, but not believed to be related.

 -mitch

From: 	Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com>
To: 	Mitchell Perilstein <mitch@enetis.net>
Cc: 	pear-general@lists.php.net
Subject: 	[PEAR] Re: DB_DataObjects: How to mix clone and getLinks?
Date: 	Sun, 11 May 2003 22:17:31 +0800	
Mitchell Perilstein wrote:
Hi all, 
> 
> I often do stuff like this:
> 
>     $obj = new DataObjects_MyThing();
>     $obj->find();
>     while ($obj->fetch()) {
>         $objc = $obj->__clone();
      $objc->getLinks();
>         
      $objc->_someChild->foo = 42;
>       $objc->_someChild->bar = 'quack';
>       $objc->_someChild->update();
>     }
> 
> For each found object, the loop should do something to a "_" child,
> which was loaded with getLinks(), and then does a db update on it.
> 
> Each time through the loop, it seems getLinks() provides the OLD copy
> obj's child, ie, it is not reloaded and so does not reflect any of the
> prior updates().
> 
> Is this expected?  Is this over-eager caching?
> 
It probably a bug - the fetch() call should reset the 'has links been 
loaded flag..'

- can you file it as a bug.

Regards
Alan