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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #40953

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42	42	The global flag ideas are attractive because they cover the entire DB stack: whether you're using the abstraction layers like `get_posts()`, `WP_Query`, or any of the other query classes, it ''just works'' all the way down the line.
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44		The settable `wpdb` flag is attractive only if you're really working with direct queries like ~~we are~~ in our custom table query classes. The same goes for a new argument in `get_col()`, though both could be implemented higher up the stack in the form of arguments or filters.
	44	The settable `wpdb` flag is attractive only if you're really working with direct queries like [https://github.com/AffiliateWP/AffiliateWP/blob/master/includes/abstracts/class-db.php#L179 we are] in our custom table query classes. The same goes for a new argument in `get_col()`, though both could be implemented higher up the stack in the form of arguments or filters.
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46	46	I think a good first step here would be to try to benchmark performance for all of the listed options, just to see what we're looking at. The global flag choices seem like they could be the least impactful.