Does the manager API always select all columns and deserialize them into a model first?

[finnvyrn]

Does the manager API always select all columns and deserialize them into a model first?

[simolus3]

Yes, that's how drift APIs provide type safety around nullability (if a column is non-nullable, so will be the type returned by managers). This would not be possible when returning partial rows.

You could use computed fields to add additional columns in case of joins, but there's no way to remove existing ones.