Re: loading many objects from one query

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:21:41AM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Tim Bunce wrote:
> >>The tricky 
> >>part would be making the relationship accessors use an in-memory cache 
> >>instead of the database.  I would suggest doing that part by writing 
> >>your own relationship type that looks at a cache first and then calls 
> >>the normal has_many relationship code if it doesn't find anything.
> >
> >
> >Umm. Seems like a bug/limitation of the caching code that construct() isn't
> >integrated with it in some way. Currently all uses of sth_to_objects()
> >don't consider the cache at all.
> 
> That's because there is no cache. :)
> 
> The existing object index is only intended to avoid having duplicates of 
> the same object in memory.  Caching relationships and avoiding database 
> hits is outside of that.

The existing object index does not avoid having duplicates of the
same object in memory if those duplicates are created via sth_to_objects.

Tim.