It looks like I needed to patch query.rb to no longer raise an
exception when it gets a nil order by argument.  This allowed the
first method to take this:

first(:deleted => false, :order => [nil])

Not the prettiest thing ever, but at least it works.

On Nov 18, 1:31 pm, Sam Smoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe the sort is added by a default scope, so you may just want
> to inspect the scoping mechanism to disable this.
>
> More of a one-line hack than a full on monkey-patch hopefully.
>
> And BTW, this is on the list to remove for 1.0.
>
> -Sam
>
> On Nov 18, 2:51 pm, cliffmoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason why DM will issue an order by id as part of a query
> > issued from Model#first?  I'm trying to query a rather large table and
> > the filesort incurred from the order by is simply killing the
> > performance.  I'm using dm 0.9.3.
>
> > A query like:
>
> > Model.first(:deleted => false)
>
> > is resulting in this SQL call (a lot of properties have been removed
> > for brevity):
>
> > SELECT `id`, ... FROM `model` WHERE `deleted` = FALSE ORDER BY `id`
> > LIMIT 1
>
> > Since the list of matching rows is quite large, the order by is using
> > a very expensive filesort.  How do I turn off the order by?
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