I was wondering if something were doable with SqlAlchemy in a decently 
performant manner that can be maintained cleanly.  I'm open to any 
strategies that people can suggest.

We have a handful of reserved internal "system" or "control" records in our 
database. Depending on the table, anywhere from 10k to 1MM ids are reserved 
(in practice, only 10 are actually used).

I'd like to exclude these items from showing up in relationships (and 
possibly even from appearing on a record as an id field).  They are only 
needed in our Admin interface (runs as a separate app, so it can be 
configured differently), but are a hindrance on the Public app.

Here's a typical use case:

One of our tables represents a content-graph of spidered web pages. During 
the course of development, we realized certain data wasn't being attributed 
to the right pages due to issues with redirect detection in a specific 
scenario.  Consequently, a chunk of records created before we addressed 
this case now list their 'redirected_from' id as the control record for 
"Untracked Redirect Chain".  (Due to the size of the DB and several other 
constraints, adding in a new field to track errors/data wasn't an option).

That leaves me needing to hide this connection in two places on our 
clientside app:
* don't load it into a sqlalchemy.orm.relationship
* discard it when looking at the raw column ids (when populating the 
read-through cache)

To handle this, I'm doing the latter manually and using a 'display_' 
prefixed property to wrap the real relationship - but this is ugly.

I'm hoping for some suggestions from the larger community.

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