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Rails 6 sometimes loads associations twice, causing duplicated results #32

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If multiple records in a collection have the same record set for a belongs_to, which itself has a has_many association, the has_many association will return duplicate records. When using ActiveRecord's preload, there are no duplicate records.

Example:

[1] pry> cp = EmailAddress.jit_preload.to_a.first.contact.phone_numbers
=> [#<PhoneNumber:0x00007fa15315b4f8 id: 1, contact_id: 1, phone: "123">,
    #<PhoneNumber:0x00007fa15315b4f8 id: 1, contact_id: 1, phone: "123">]
[2] pry> EmailAddress.preload(contact: :phone_numbers).to_a.first.contact.phone_numbers
=> [#<PhoneNumber:0x00007fa1436fe870 id: 1, contact_id: 1, phone: "123">]

This also results in AR making two identical queries for the phone_numbers instead of only one.

Here's a spec which replicates the problem: https://github.com/clio/jit_preloader/pull/31/files. Seems to only happen under Rails 6.

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