It makes sense to be consistent and to cache the

object as soon as we got the data from the database.

lib/Data/ObjectDriver/BaseObject.pm

@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ sub refresh {
     my $fields = $obj->fetch_data;
     $obj->set_values_internal($fields);
     $obj->call_trigger('post_load');
+    $obj->driver->cache_object($obj);
     return 1;
 }