I finally figure out what is wrong. CakePHP makes a select statement to the entire table without qualifying the schema and so it is picking up tables with same name in a different schema! I hope this is fixed in the new version!
For example, the query it makes is: SELECT DISTINCT column_name AS name, data_type AS type, is_nullable AS null, column_default AS default, ordinal_position AS position, character_maximum_length AS char_length, character_octet_length AS oct_length FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name ='institutions' ORDER BY position When it should qualfiy the table_schema like this: SELECT DISTINCT column_name AS name, data_type AS type, is_nullable AS null, column_default AS default, ordinal_position AS position, character_maximum_length AS char_length, character_octet_length AS oct_length FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = 'publications' AND table_name ='institutions' ORDER BY position Hope this helps someone else. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---