Why is it shit? What do you mean by 'stupidly'? Is this something that you intend to fix later when updating the mysql version, or is it something that will alw

Why is it shit? What do you mean by 'stupidly'? Is this something that you intend to fix later when updating the mysql version, or is it something that will always be stupid? What are the performance impacts? Why not search both databases using the stupid method to avoid two codepaths which might diverge? I prefer to be parsimonious with comments, but strange hacks, workarounds for bugs, and other places where otherwise clean code meets the real world should probably have at least some description of why that particular workaround was chosen, and not some other more obvious option.