ENH: Use pure SQL for return_type = 'id' queries #949
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An alternative to #948 and #942
Instead of relying on looping over entities, allow the core logic of
.getto return a subquery, rather than list of files.This subquery can then be used to find the unique entities of a given target for a list files, in pure SQL.
This can a bit faster (22ms vs 6-7 ms on my test dataset w/ ~80 subs), which could make a difference on very large datasets.