On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 4:58:47 AM UTC-7, Aryk Grosz wrote: > > Often times, I want to return the IDs from an association only to use it > in another query. > > For example, say you have a many to many like User has many Books. > > With association_pks plugin, you can do user.book_pks and get back an > actual array, but if you are returning potentially 300 IDs and then > throwing that into another query, that query will get unnecesarily long > (imagine repeating this a few times). > > I noticed that in the association_pks plugin, you are running select_map > on all your datasets. Perhaps at that last step, we could simple "select' > that column and create a new method <association>_pks_dataset to just > return the dataset. > > It wouldn't add a lot of new code/logic, but increase flexibility of that > plugin. > > Thoughts? >
This seems like a useful feature addition, I'll add it to my todo list. Thanks, Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sequel-talk/1cac6d31-52f3-4a4c-8fc1-be9a6375382c%40googlegroups.com.
