At least when using Postgres that query makes a LEFT OUTER JOIN so it shouldn't discard Shops just because they don't have a state or city.
So your query seems to be OK are you sure your search text is fine? the orm will not automatically strip the search_text into a list of keywords or things like that. For example, searching for "ski shop" will not match a Shop with name "ski super shop". On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Ajay M <aja...@triassicsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi I'm a newbie to Django. I'm trying to implement a search feature like > this. > > query_results = Shops.objects.filter\ > (Q(shop_name__icontains=search_text)\ > |Q(state__state_name__icontains=search_text)\ > > |Q(city__city_name__icontains=search_text)).distinct() > > I would like to search Shops based on the shop_name, state_name and > city_name. State and city fields are foreign keys. For some 'Shops' state > andcity are null. However, shop_name contains the search_text. So I'm not > getting those 'Shops' by running this query. Any help on this is > appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0c156715-b2fb-46ab-ad3d-d25235e7c4ca%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0c156715-b2fb-46ab-ad3d-d25235e7c4ca%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CALn3ei1tKyQmO43UR2U%2B8LJKVUA9HUdNyReZpQGhd3AH-Rj3qg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
