Mads Lindstrøm <[email protected]> writes:

> I do not get this explanation, could you expand? I would have thought it
> should be: "difference? Because SQLAlchemy knows about the relationships
> (not relations, but relation_ships_), it do not have to explicitly join
> on foreign keys.".

I think this is a common terminology issue - lots of people think
"relational" refers linking tables together (foreign keys), and not the
mathematical definition of a relation as a subset of T1 x T2 x ... x
Tn -- i.e. a table.

-k
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