I have the following paginator setup:
@merch_pages, @merch = paginate :merch_item, :per_page => 15, :select =>
‘DISTINCT mi.id, mi.merch_image, mi.created_at, mi.artist_id,
mi.item_description, art.sort_name’, :join => ‘as mi JOIN merch_formats
mf
ON mi.id = mf.merch_item_id JOIN artists art ON mi.artist_id = art.id’,
:order => ‘art.sort_name’, :conditions => [“mf.active_status = 1 AND
format_name = ? AND format_name <> ‘Poster’”, params[:id]]
This part works like a charm… Problem is that the COUNT(*) query that
is
executed doesn’t include the DISTINCT, so the paginator thinks there are
7
pages of results but there are only three.
Is this a bug? It seems strange that the two operations would have
different
limiting factors.
Perhaps I am cheating by putting DISTINCT into the :select option. If
so, is
there another way to handle this?
You can see the generated queries below:
LOG: statement: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM merch_items as mi JOIN
merch_formats
mf ON mi.id = mf.merch_item_id JOIN artists art ON mi.artist_id = art.id
WHERE (mf.active_status = 1 AND format_name = ‘T-Shirt’ AND format_name
<>
‘Poster’)
LOG: statement: SELECT DISTINCT mi.id, mi.merch_image, mi.created_at,
mi.artist_id, mi.item_description, art.sort_name FROM merch_items as mi
JOIN merch_formats mf ON mi.id = mf.merch_item_id JOIN artists art ON
mi.artist_id = art.id WHERE (mf.active_status = 1 AND format_name =
‘T-Shirt’ AND format_name <> ‘Poster’) ORDER BY art.sort_name LIMIT 15
OFFSET 45
Cheers.