The ability to add sql in the query between the first word and body of the query (allowing "SELECT STRAIGHT_JOIN" etc)

I recently discovered that I could greatly optimize some of the queries that were being run through our system by adding a STRAIGHT_JOIN keyword to the front of the select

I added a feature to doctrine which allows me to inject sql into the query in the right place to enable features such as "STRAIGHT_JOIN" but I can't post the patch because my patches are starting to run together – the syntax with in the generated patch would also contain parts of other patches I have posted to jira but have not yet been included in the doctrine svn.

I still wanted to make this post because it will give me a ticket number to base my test cases around.

Will Ferrer