--- /dev/null
+package DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::MultiColumnIn;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use base 'DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI';
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::MultiColumnIn - Storage component for RDBMS supporting multicolumn in clauses
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+While ANSI SQL does not define a multicolumn in operator, many databases can
+in fact understand WHERE (cola, colb) IN ( SELECT subcol_a, subcol_b ... )
+The storage class for any such RDBMS should inherit from this class, in order
+to dramatically speed up update/delete operations on joined multipk resultsets.
+
+At this point the only overriden method is C<_multipk_update_delete()>
+
+=cut
+
+sub _multipk_update_delete {
+ my $self = shift;
+ my ($rs, $op, $values) = @_;
+
+ my $rsrc = $rs->result_source;
+ my @pcols = $rsrc->primary_columns;
+ my $attrs = $rs->_resolved_attrs;
+
+ # naive check - this is an internal method after all, we should know what we are doing
+ $self->throw_exception ('Number of columns selected by supplied resultset does not match number of primary keys')
+ if ( ref $attrs->{select} ne 'ARRAY' or @{$attrs->{select}} != @pcols );
+
+ # This is hideously ugly, but SQLA does not understand multicol IN expressions
+ my ($sql, @bind) = @${$rs->as_query};
+ $sql = sprintf ('(%s) IN %s',
+ join (', ', @pcols),
+ $sql,
+ );
+
+ return $self->$op (
+ $rsrc,
+ $op eq 'update' ? $values : (),
+ \[$sql, @bind],
+ );
+
+}
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+See L<DBIx::Class/CONTRIBUTORS>
+
+=head1 LICENSE
+
+You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+=cut
+
+1;