Steve Castellotti wrote:
SELECT name FROM (SELECT table_name FROM media WHERE media_id=1);

You can try something like:

SELECT name FROM audio JOIN media ON id
WHERE table_name='audio' AND media_id=1
UNION ALL
SELECT name FROM video JOIN media ON id
WHERE table_name='video' AND media_id=1
;

Assuming you've got indexes on (id) on both tables that should be reasonably quick.

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