John, it's ridiculous, but a 'sign' IS NOT my column! :)
It is a mystic...
And some more facts... I test my script on all three computers I have. In two cases of them this error occurs, but in one case the different error occurs:
insert() - Cannot bind a reference
that's all!
I join two files to this message:
1) my Rose::DB-structure of DB in classes
2) an exemplar of my object I try to save in cascade mode.
maybe, this helps to get a solve...