Revert "Remove a line which did nothing"

This reverts commit 7ac9fc19c675f4a529d815af25963accdae72723.
Revert "Merge pull request #46 from bengler/db-roundtrip-optimization"

This reverts commit f1239114527b21e62e177cb98fc51d079964db95, reversing
changes made to 2e07d1bd79dc87720a79eddba1f2dc7fcf43b2d3.