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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb index e6fa15c173..ce62127505 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb @@ -35,8 +35,11 @@ module ActiveRecord else @reflection.klass.count(:conditions => @counter_sql, :include => @reflection.options[:include]) end - - @target = [] and loaded if count == 0 + + # If there's nothing in the database and @target has no new records + # we are certain the current target is an empty array. This is a + # documented side-effect of the method that may avoid an extra SELECT. + @target ||= [] and loaded if count == 0 if @reflection.options[:limit] count = [ @reflection.options[:limit], count ].min |