[Zope3-dev] Re: I want Object Gadfly

Garrett Smith garrett@mojave-corp.com
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:59:57 -0500


Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:39:22PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Should queries
>>> have access to the referenced object directly, or only to some kind
>>> of referential meta-data?
>>=20
>> Reference to object directly.
>>=20
>>> In other words, is this kosher:
>>>=20
>>> SELECT * from user_links
>>> WHERE source.absolute_url().startswith('/articles/2003')
>>>  and source.title contains 'Gadfly';
>>=20
>> Yup.
>=20
> So every query will wake up every object referenced in the table?

I would hope that anything could be queried without touching any objects
-- all of the data would be replicated in the RDB.

 -- Garrett