On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 16:42:24 UTC, FG wrote:
A misfeature? If the ORM only allowed SELECT *, it wouldn't be of much use with records containing blobs or big amounts of other data. If the object was retrieved only for read and to update a few fields, pulling all columns would be very wasteful.
The more interesting application is prefetching for associated relations when needed, to avoid the infamous N+1 problem.
