Well, yeah that would work but I would really hate to use a view to work around this.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:25 AM, michael luger <michael.lu...@univie.ac.at>wrote: > > this might be a django bug . > > a workaround using a view for the second usage worked for me . in your > case something like: > > create view category_parent as select * from category; > > category_list = > Category.objects.all().extra(tables=['category_parent'], > where=['category.lft BETWEEN category_parent.lft AND > category_parent.rgt']) > > On 13 Mai, 22:23, Austin Gabel <aga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to use the ORM to build the following query: > > """SELECT * FROM category AS node, category AS parent WHERE node.lft > BETWEEN > > parent.lft AND parent.rgt""" > > > > I am attempting to create the table aliases using .extra() but I'm having > a > > bit of difficulty. I have left out the where statements in order to > reduce > > complexity while troubleshooting this issue. My current code looks like > > this. > > category_list = Category.objects.all().extra(tables=['category']) > > > > The way I understand the documentation [1] is if a table is listed in the > > tables argument that already exists in the query, it will add the table > with > > a generic alias. However, it is simply ignoring the additional table. > This > > is the SQL that is produces. > > > > ('SELECT "category"."id", "category"."lft", "category"."rgt", > > "category"."tree_id", "category"."depth", "category"."name" FROM > "category" > > ORDER BY "category"."name" ASC', ()) > > > > Is this not the correct way to go about adding a table alias? Am I just > > missing something or am I way off track here? > > > > [1] > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#extra-sele... > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.