Passing too much information?

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
A quick solution to use the fastest queries and the least data using AR

Code:

function get_profiles($fields)
{
    if(!empty($fields){ $this->db->select($fields); }

    return $this->db->get('table')->result();
}

function get_profile($id,$fields='')
{
   if(!empty($fields){ $this->db->select($fields); }

   return $this->db->get_where('table',array('id'=>$id))->row();
}

It's too bad the get and get_where method don't provide this option themselves because i think there are more queries where you need to get specific fields/columns than there are getting all the fields from a table.