Hello all, got a question that I haven't yet seen an answer to...

I have a fairly standard many:many relationship, much like the classic
Posts-Tags example. I have the standard join table, with an extra
column, for example:

posts (id, text)
tags (id, name)
posts_tags (post_id, tag_id, tag_link_id)

So this is where it gets unorthodox. Using the standard
hasAndBelongsToMany, when I'm iterating a list of posts I can easily
enough get the tags. But does anyone have a suggestion for *also*
getting the tag_link_id for the association?

As an example, I'd like to take a Post, and iterate its array of Tags.
For each Tag, I want to get Tag.name but also get the tag_link_id from
the corresponding row in posts_tags. I suppose I could do a find in
posts_tags using the post_id and tag_id, but that's an extra database
query for data that I should already have.

Any suggestions of a clever way to carry this associated data along?

Thanks in advance.

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