table_exists fails to notice a created table using create_table

[eluser]dcunited08[/eluser]
The code keeps a list of all tables:

Code:

$data_cache['table_names'];

This is all well and good but it does not update or reset after calling create_table and the table is successfully created. So, the next time you call

Code:

table_exists('table1');

it says the table does not exist because it was not there when this method was called previously. Is this already bugged?