[Dbix-class] Help with Problem with Distinct

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:10:56AM +1100, Neil Lunn wrote:
> 
> 
> Matt Lawrence wrote:
> >You can pass distinct => 1 to the attributes to affect a GROUP BY 
> >clause containing all columns, which should be  logically equivalent 
> >to SELECT DISTINCT
> >
> >{
> >   select => [ 'm2.inventorycategoryid', 'c2.name' ],
> >   distinct => 1,
> >}
> >
> Yes I do remember seeing that in the docs now. Thanks for the pointer.
> I wonder what then is the purpose of this construct?
> 
> {
>    select => [ { distinct => [ $source->columns ] } ],
> }
> 
> As the array ref is parsed into : select distinct( col1, col2) ??

Patches to generate the correct SQL are welcome.

I suspect because there's an alternative way that works anybody who would
have patched it has simply switched.

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