quick q, I have a `field :posts, as: :has_many, through: :comments` and I appear to be getting the same `Post` record in the list multiple times if there are multiple comments, can I dedupe this somehow?

Hi <@609184092990210063>, maybe that's happending because some comments has the same post. In order to fix that issue you can add a scope on the field (https://docs.avohq.io/2.0/associations/has_many.html#scope)

Example:

```ruby
field :posts,
 as: :has_many,
 through: :comments,
 scope: -> { query.distinct }
```

awesome, I thought it would be easy!  thanks I'll try it

Sure, anytime! I hope it solves your issue

Just out of curiosity is there a case where `distinct` is unwanted?

That's up to you, is there any case where you want to see duplicated records?

I can think of some custom use cases, like for example just adding `distinct` won't surface a count, but to get a count that would require some more custom work

for the standard has many through I think it's probably more often wanted than not

I suppose in a lot of use cases there would be no difference between distinct and not

Nope - but I am just speaking generally now

`distinct` worked perfectly for what I'm currently doing, thank you