From: Jess Robinson <castaway@desert-island.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:36:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add docs in various places to point out how to get the total count of rows for a... 
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Add docs in various places to point out how to get the total count of rows for a paged resultset
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diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/Manual/FAQ.pod b/lib/DBIx/Class/Manual/FAQ.pod
index 273397a..7d4505e 100644
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/Manual/FAQ.pod
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/Manual/FAQ.pod
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ replaced with the following.)
 
 Or, if you have quoting off:
 
- ->search({ 'YEAR(date_of_birth' => 1979 });
+ ->search({ 'YEAR(date_of_birth)' => 1979 });
 
 =item .. find more help on constructing searches?
 
@@ -353,6 +353,20 @@ to get a new, fresh copy of the row, just re-fetch the row from storage.
 L<DBIx::Class::PK/discard_changes> does just that by re-fetching the row from storage
 using the row's primary key.
 
+=item .. fetch my data a "page" at a time?
+
+Pass the C<rows> and C<page> attributes to your search, eg:
+
+  ->search({}, { rows => 10, page => 1});
+
+=item .. get a count of all rows even when paging?
+
+Call C<pager> on the paged resultset, it will return a L<Data::Page>
+object. Calling C<total_entries> on the pager will return the correct
+total.
+
+C<count> on the resultset will only return the total number in the page.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Inserting and updating data
diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm b/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm
index 5969744..8854542 100644
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/ResultSet.pm
@@ -1636,6 +1636,9 @@ sub _normalize_populate_args {
 Return Value a L<Data::Page> object for the current resultset. Only makes
 sense for queries with a C<page> attribute.
 
+To get the full count of entries for a paged resultset, call
+C<total_entries> on the L<Data::Page> object.
+
 =cut
 
 sub pager {
@@ -2857,6 +2860,10 @@ on it.
 
 If L<rows> attribute is not specified it defualts to 10 rows per page.
 
+When you have a paged resultset, L</count> will only return the number
+of rows in the page. To get the total, use the L</pager> and call
+C<total_entries> on it.
+
 =head2 rows
 
 =over 4