Sorry,
I thought I deleted the post just after sending it but it seems like it
still went through. I figured out it was indeed the loading of ORM objects
and not the query itself. For completeness sake in case anyone reads this
at a later date. We were doing something like len(parent.children) to
hey there -
that query is not a cartesian product. the child and child_parent tables are
linked together in the WHERE clause. I would assume the query here is in fact
taking about half a second to run, the problem here is in the composition of
Python objects for every row.
I am assuming
Dear sqlalchemy users,
After look at the docs I arrived at the following structure:
```
Base = declarative_base()
parent_child = Table(
"parent_child",
Base.metadata,
Column("parent_id", Integer, ForeignKey("parent.id")),
Column("child_id", Integer, ForeignKey("child.id")),
)
class
