Imagine you used to have `select f1, f2 from t1`. But now f2 becomes a fk to a table t2, so now we have f2_id that points to t2 (with fields id, name) where t1.f2_id = t2.id .
In my case, I only had access to the select fields list (the 'from t1' was already fixed, and I just could modify the retrieved fields), so I couldn't do an actual join, BUT! I found you can do a similar thing to an sql join for individual fields, adding a subquery as a field in the field_list.
select t1.f1, (select name from t2 where t2.id=t1.f2_id) as f2 from t1
Really really nice to know that t1.f2_id can be gathered from the subquery. The subquery will be triggered once per t1 row, so it'll probably be slower than a join, but check your EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and see if the cost is bearable, or even if it has any impact at all for your use case.
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