diff --git a/system/database/DB_driver.php b/system/database/DB_driver.php
index f8956f0..c397bb7 100644
--- a/system/database/DB_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/DB_driver.php
@@ -1308,19 +1308,13 @@
 	 */
 	public function list_fields($table)
 	{
-		// Is there a cached result?
-		if (isset($this->data_cache['field_names'][$table]))
-		{
-			return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
-		}
-
 		if (FALSE === ($sql = $this->_list_columns($table)))
 		{
 			return ($this->db_debug) ? $this->display_error('db_unsupported_function') : FALSE;
 		}
 
 		$query = $this->query($sql);
-		$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table] = array();
+		$fields = array();
 
 		foreach ($query->result_array() as $row)
 		{
@@ -1342,10 +1336,10 @@
 				}
 			}
 
-			$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table][] = $row[$key];
+			$fields[] = $row[$key];
 		}
 
-		return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
+		return $fields;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
index 93871a9..3602c28 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/pdo/subdrivers/pdo_sqlite_driver.php
@@ -128,24 +128,18 @@
 	 */
 	public function list_fields($table)
 	{
-		// Is there a cached result?
-		if (isset($this->data_cache['field_names'][$table]))
-		{
-			return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
-		}
-
 		if (($result = $this->query('PRAGMA TABLE_INFO('.$this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE).')')) === FALSE)
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table] = array();
+		$fields = array();
 		foreach ($result->result_array() as $row)
 		{
-			$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table][] = $row['name'];
+			$fields[] = $row['name'];
 		}
 
-		return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
+		return $fields;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
index 41d9d48..b6deccf 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite3/sqlite3_driver.php
@@ -230,24 +230,18 @@
 	 */
 	public function list_fields($table)
 	{
-		// Is there a cached result?
-		if (isset($this->data_cache['field_names'][$table]))
-		{
-			return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
-		}
-
 		if (($result = $this->query('PRAGMA TABLE_INFO('.$this->protect_identifiers($table, TRUE, NULL, FALSE).')')) === FALSE)
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
 
-		$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table] = array();
+		$fields = array();
 		foreach ($result->result_array() as $row)
 		{
-			$this->data_cache['field_names'][$table][] = $row['name'];
+			$fields[] = $row['name'];
 		}
 
-		return $this->data_cache['field_names'][$table];
+		return $fields;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 5e72982..dc07881 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 -  Fixed a bug (#5571) - :doc:`XML-RPC Library <libraries/xmlrpc>` had a typo that triggered an ``E_WARNING`` message on PHP 7.2.
 -  Fixed a bug (#5587) - :doc:`Database Forge <database/forge>` method ``create_table()`` generated an ``E_WARNING`` message.
 -  Fixed a bug (#5590) - :doc:`Form Validation Library <libraries/form_validation>` rule **valid_base64** didn't have a default error message.
+-  Fixed a bug (#5624) - :doc:`Database Library <database/index>` methods ``list_fields()``, ``field_exists()`` returned incorrect results after tables are modified.
 
 Version 3.1.9
 =============