=head1 NAME DBIx::Class::Manual::Troubleshooting - Got a problem? Shoot it. =head2 "Can't locate storage blabla" You're trying to make a query on a non-connected schema. Make sure you got the current resultset from $schema->resultset('Artist') on a schema object you got back from connect(). =head2 Tracing SQL The C environment variable controls SQL tracing, so to see what is happening try export DBIC_TRACE=1 Alternatively use the C<< storage->debug >> class method:- $class->storage->debug(1); To send the output somewhere else set debugfh:- $class->storage->debugfh(IO::File->new('/tmp/trace.out', 'w'); Alternatively you can do this with the environment variable too:- export DBIC_TRACE="1=/tmp/trace.out" =head2 Can't locate method result_source_instance For some reason the table class in question didn't load fully, so the ResultSource object for it hasn't been created. Debug this class in isolation, then try loading the full schema again. =head2 Can't get last insert ID under Postgres with serial primary keys Older L and L versions do not handle C correctly, causing code that uses auto-incrementing primary key columns to fail with a message such as: Can't get last insert id at /.../DBIx/Class/Row.pm line 95 In particular the RHEL 4 and FC3 Linux distributions both ship with combinations of L and L modules that do not work correctly. L version 1.50 and L 1.43 are known to work. =head2 ... Can't locate object method "source_name" via package ... There's likely a syntax error in the table class referred to elsewhere in this error message. In particular make sure that the package declaration is correct, so for a schema C< MySchema > you need to specify a fully qualified namespace: C< package MySchema::MyTable; > for example. =head2 syntax error at or near "" ... This can happen if you have a relation whose name is a word reserved by your database, e.g. "user": package My::Schema::User; ... __PACKAGE__->table('users'); __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ id name /); __PACKAGE__->set_primary_key('id'); ... 1; package My::Schema::ACL; ... __PACKAGE__->table('acl'); __PACKAGE__->add_columns(qw/ user_id /); __PACKAGE__->belongs_to( 'user' => 'My::Schema::User', 'user_id' ); ... 1; $schema->resultset('ACL')->search( {}, { join => [qw/ user /], '+select' => [ 'user.name' ] } ); The SQL generated would resemble something like: SELECT me.user_id, user.name FROM acl me JOIN users user ON me.user_id = user.id If, as is likely, your database treats "user" as a reserved word, you'd end up with the following errors: 1) syntax error at or near "." - due to "user.name" in the SELECT clause 2) syntax error at or near "user" - due to "user" in the JOIN clause The solution is to enable quoting - see L for details. Note that quoting may lead to problems with C clauses, see L<... column "foo DESC" does not exist ...> for info on avoiding those. =head2 column "foo DESC" does not exist ... This can happen if you've turned on quoting and then done something like this: $rs->search( {}, { order_by => [ 'name DESC' ] } ); This results in SQL like this: ... ORDER BY "name DESC" The solution is to pass your order_by items as scalar references to avoid quoting: $rs->search( {}, { order_by => [ \'name DESC' ] } ); Now you'll get SQL like this: ... ORDER BY name DESC =cut