Yannick Gingras wrote:
> 
> Hi, I use Alchemy to connection to a legacy system from which I pull
> data to be inserter into a new system that is being built with Python.
> 
> I'm only interested by a tiny fraction of the legacy data and I'm
> wondering if it's possible to specify constraints to the mapper do
> that
> 
>   Obj.query()
> 
> would only fetch rows with col_a == foo and col_b == bar.
> 
> I know how to do that for a field of the object with 
>   
>   relation(..., primary_join=...)
> 
> How would I do that at the object level?

A couple approaches come to mind:
- map Obj to a select() with the restrictions baked in
- use Query(obj).select_from() with a restrictive select

Making a custom Obj.query property that puts select_from on the query by 
default is pretty easy too.



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