On May 23, 11:33 pm, akaariai <akaar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 3:36 pm, akaariai <akaar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I guess (again!) that the reason for the LEFT JOIN is this call in sql/
> > compiler.py:_setup_joins()
>
> > self.query.promote_alias_chain(joins,
> >      self.query.alias_map[joins[0]].join_type == self.query.LOUTER)
>
> > This seems to promote the join to outer join too aggressively, the
> > promote_alias_chain call does not see that the join is constrained by
> > other conditions already. I don't know if this has any practical
> > effects, nor do I know how easy/hard this would be to fix. It could be
> > as easy as just starting from the first new join generated by the
> > _setup_joins() call, and leaving the pre-existing joins alone. If it
> > is that easy, it should be fixed...
>
> I have a fix for the issue mentioned above. I haven't figured out how
> to create a query where promotion from INNER JOIN to LEFT OUTER JOIN
> will cause wrong results. Fixing this is still worth it, as even if
> there isn't a query where the current promotion logic breaks the
> results, it is possible there one day will be a way to do that. There
> might be performance impacts at least for some databases.
>
> If somebody happens to figure out a query which produces wrong results
> due to the INNER -> OUTER promotion it would be good to add a test
> case for that.
>
> See this pull request for details:https://github.com/django/django/pull/90
>
>  - Anssi

Fixed in 
https://github.com/django/django/commit/8c72aa237918e31a525022f72b22cac75451af86

 - Anssi

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