Greetings all,

I've been racking my brain for about two days to try to figure this
out.  I have a category table, consisting of, among other things, a
category_id and a category_parent_id.  The idea is that categories can
be sub categories of others (hence the category_parent_id) and have a
null parent if they are the root node.

I set up a onetomany relationship linking the category_id to the
parent_id with lazy loading and everything was working beautifully for
reading.  The problem cropped up when I tried to save a record.

The error that came back was a SQL error, stating "category_parent_id
appears more than once in the result column list."  From what I can
find, this error occurs if you have two tables and have the
relationship defined on both tables.  The solution there is to remove
a relationship definition from one of the tables and all is well.

Since this is referencing itself, it is inherently getting both sides
of the definition defined, which I think is what is causing this to
break.  I checked the SQL, and indeed it is taking on an extra
category_parent_id to the end of the insert statement.

I'm not sure if this is a Transfer bug or if I'm trying to use it in a
way it wasn't meant to, but having a self-referencing table like this
seems like a reasonable thing one would want to be able to model.  For
the record, I did get around it by using a link table that has two
columns that point to the category_id field in the category table and
a Many to Many relationship.  Ideally, I'd like to not use an extra
table to do this.

I just wanted to bring this to the masses because I couldn't find
anything on this and felt it may have been overlooked.  What I WAS
able to find was in reference to hibernate.

System specs:
-Transfer 1.0
-CF7
-MSSQL 2005
-XP

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