On 16/04/2011, at 7:54 AM, Corin Langosch <[email protected]> wrote:
> This change should not have any backwards compatibility issues because a 
> named finder with a query which selects more than one row is never desired 
> and a sign for bad design.
>
> What do you think?
>

It doesn't have backwards compatibility in terms of the values
returned to a user, however it would have significantly difference
performance characteristics.  Removing the limit will make the
database examine multiple rows, lots of them in your case, which won't
be ideal.

The dynamic finders are currently a small piece of syntactic sugar for
'where x = ? limit 1', I'm not sure that changing them to do something
more complete really gains us much.

An easier fix for your case would be a unique index, and a model
method which raises ArgmentError when passed null.




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