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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #47280, comment 8

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3	3	The usage in `class-wp-query.php` as some interesting implications. There is a filter on the posts query allowing for a completely arbitrary query to be run. Options that come to mind are to try to parse that query to replace the fields with `COUNT()` or simply wrap the query (e.g., `SELECT COUNT() from ($query) p`). For safety, I plan to do the latter, but I have no idea how that will play with the query optimizer.
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5		~~I'm open to other ideas~~.
	5	Edit: Realizing the above won't work. At a minimum I need to strip any LIMIT clauses off the original query.