Re: Standalone prefetch without main query?

>>  When prefetching as part of a fetch spec some clever code bases the 
>> query for Continents (in your example) on the criteria of the main query 
>> for People, not requiring an OR for each Company returned. I wish 
>> batchFetchRelationship() could be that clever.
>
>Yes.  You can figure out how to write an appropriate fetch spec that will 
>fetch the objects based on the joins, rather than a bunch of ORs.  The 
>problem is getting the to-many relationship faults to be filled with these 
>results, rather than remain faults that will go to the db upon fetch.

I was just making the point that prefetching on a normal fetch spec does 
exactly that i.e. filling the to-many relationship faults for any keypath 
from the base object that is being queried preventing them firing when they 
are accessed later. This is invaluable to me and I use it a lot to save on 
oodles of processing. I am just being greedy in that I would like to see 
batchFetchRelationship() also accept keypaths rather than just a 
relationship and to base the query for deeper relationships in the keypath 
on the top level query as it is for fetch specs.