It used to be IN and then someone asked that it be changed to the current OR
and they had a reasonable argument, so we changed it.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM, aw <anth...@whitford.com> wrote:

> From reading Exploring Lift (Section 6.1, page 81), it says that
> ByList corresponds to the “field IN (x,y,z)” syntax in SQL.
> Well, that was what I needed, so I took it for a test drive.  However,
> instead of seeing SQL like:  where some.id in (4, 9, 20)
> I am seeing SQL like:  where some.id = 4 or some.id = 9 or some.id =
> 20.
>
> I double checked the latest code:
>
> http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/blob/master/framework/lift-persistence/lift-mapper/src/main/scala/net/liftweb/mapper/MetaMapper.scala
> and it looks like there isn't a magical workaround to get IN working
> as I expected.
>
> To me, this is a violation of SQL Tuning 101:  as a rule of thumb,
> prefer the IN clause over an OR clause.
>
> Is there a good reason why this code creates OR clauses instead of an
> IN clause?
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