If I chain my .filter()s Collection.objects.filter(collection_revisions__articles=article).filter(collection_revisions__char_fi="p")
collection_revisions is related_name, FK to Collection. articles relname, m2m with collection_revision (with a through table). I get ~20 results with this query:: SELECT "catalog_collection"."id", ... "catalog_collection"."collection_type_id" FROM "catalog_collection" INNER JOIN "catalog_collection_revision" ON ("catalog_collection"."id" = "catalog_collection_revision"."collection_id") INNER JOIN "catalog_collection_revision_item" ON ("catalog_collection_revision"."id" = "catalog_collection_revision_item"."collection_revision_id") INNER JOIN "catalog_collection_revision" T5 ON ("catalog_collection"."id" = T5."collection_id") WHERE ("catalog_collection"."is_archived" = False AND "catalog_collection_revision_item"."article_id" = 3 AND T5."revision_tag" = p) When I put the two queries within the same call to filter, I thought it would be the same. But, there is not the 3rd INNER JOIN and it only returns 1 object:: Collection.objects.filter(collection_revisions__articles=article, filter(collection_revisions__revision_tag="p") SELECT "catalog_collection"."id", ... "catalog_collection"."collection_type_id" FROM "catalog_collection" INNER JOIN "catalog_collection_revision" ON ("catalog_collection"."id" = "catalog_collection_revision"."collection_id") INNER JOIN "catalog_collection_revision_item" ON ("catalog_collection_revision"."id" = "catalog_collection_revision_item"."collection_revision_id") WHERE ("catalog_collection"."is_archived" = False AND "catalog_collection_revision_item"."article_id" = 3 AND "catalog_collection_revision"."revision_tag" = p) Is this the expected behavior? Can someone explain what's going on? -- 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.