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So, I'm a moron.

Seems I'm not making proper use of the Model:: modules. I had originally found an old out of date tutorial making use of the Class::DBI helper scripts, so that's what I used in making this blog. Problem is, the tutorial was woefully incomplete, AND CDBI seems to work - at the surface - without any additional configuration.

Except when you have a stupid datamodel that requires you join a table to itself and get a count of child rows for each parent row.

These days, using Class::DBI seems frowned upon by the catalyst community, so I think instead of trying to fix what's broken, I'll just use a different model to access my data - HOPEfully one that isn't woefully broken, lets me write some of my own nasty SQL and actually reference the correct results to stuff into TemplateToolkit.

Too bad I'm busy working on my wishlist, otherwise I'd tackle this issue straight away.