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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:27 PM, William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 23:17 +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
...
>> Handwaving: I'd like to have a flexible way of saying "I need these
>> attributes (x, y,z) of the members of this collection
>> (some-GenericCollection-subclass)" and have all the needed related sql
>> expressions banged on automatically, then delivered as a result set of
>> the right objects, with those related things precached.
>
> This would also be really handy for normal LP code. Currently one must
> join in references manually, and there's nothing that can be done about
> collections.

I agree, although I don't understand that last bit about there being
"nothing that can be done about collections".

jml