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20583	Make setup_joins() the primary API for join generation	Anssi Kääriäinen	nobody	"Currently the ORM has two different code paths for generating joins. First, there is setup_joins() which uses internally names_to_path() which again uses get_path_info(). However some other parts of the ORM use directly field's get_joining_columns() (select_related descent in the compiler, joining of parent models to the query).

The idea is to use setup_joins() in all cases. This would unify the way joins are generated and thus ensure things work even if one needs to have weird definitions of get_path_info() and get_joining_columns() (needed for example by GenericRelation which works backwards to normal join fields)."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)	dev	Normal	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0