Given a table
db=> SELECT * FROM weather ORDER BY day DESC;
||= day ||= temperature ||= rainy =||
|| 2014-04-08 || 20.0 || f
||2014-04-07 || 20.0 || f
|| 2014-04-06 || 16.0 || t
|| 2014-04-05 || 16.0 || t
|| 2014-04-04 || 16.0 || t
|| 2014-04-03 || 22.0 || f
|| 2014-04-02 || 22.0 || f
|| 2014-04-01 || 22.0 || t
I'd like to show dates only if the temperature changed:
||= day ||= temperature =||
||2014-04-08 || 20.0||
||2014-04-06 || 16.0||
||2014-04-03 || 22.0||
On pure PostgreSQL, this translates to:
{{{#!sql
SELECT
w1.day, w1.temperature
FROM
(SELECT
w2.day,
w2.temperature,
lead(w2.temperature) OVER (ORDER BY w2.day DESC) as prev_temp
FROM
weather w2
ORDER BY
w2.day DESC) as w1
WHERE
w1.temp IS DISTINCT FROM w1.prev_temp
ORDER BY
w1.day DESC;
}}}
I could accomplish the inner query by using the new Window Functions:
{{{#!python
Weather.objects.annotate(prev_temp=Window(expression=Lead('temperature'),
order_by=F('day').desc()))
}}}
Now my problem is use this annotation to filter only when temperature
differs from prev_temp
(in order to accomplish something similar to the "temperature IS DISTINCT
FROM prev_temp")
When I try to use the available filters, the following errors occurs:
{{{#!python
Weather.objects.annotate(prev_temp=Window(expression=Lead('temperature'),
order_by=F('day').desc())).order_by('-day').filter(temperature__ne=F('prev_temp'))
}}}
Gives the error:
{{{#!python
FieldError: Unsupported lookup 'ne' for FloatField or join on the field
not permitted.
}}}
Another try:
{{{#!python
Weather.objects.annotate(prev_temp=Window(expression=Lead('temperature'),
order_by=F('day').desc())).order_by('-day').filter(~Q(temperature=F('prev_temp'))))
}}}
Gives the error:
{{{#!python
ProgrammingError: window functions are not allowed in WHERE
}}}
It's in fact a PostgreSQL error, because the generated SQL query tries to
pass the LAG function inside the where clause.
How may I accomplish that, even if I have to use the extra fields, or even
RawSQL class ?
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Old description:
New description:
Given a table
Another try:
Right now I'm doing:
{{{#!python
with connection.cursor() as c:
c.execute('SELECT q.day, q.temperature FROM (%s) AS q WHERE
q.temperature IS DISTINCT FROM q.prev_temp' %
str(Weather.objects.annotate(prev_temp=Window(expression=Lead('temperature'),
order_by=F('day').desc())).order_by('-day').values('day','temperature',
'prev_temp').query))
result = c.fetchall()
}}}
Important to note that I couldn't use the str(queryset.query) as parameter
to the c.execute. I had to do a python replace.
I.e, had to use ('...%s...' % parameter) instead of c.execute
('...%s...', [parameter])
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29561#comment:1>
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
Hi Gabriel. Sorry to be a pain but, as this stands it is a usage question
that needs to be directed to the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum
/django-users Django Users' mailing list].
If you can narrow it down to a specific issue with Django then we can
review that here.
Thanks!
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29561#comment:2>
Comment (by Gabriel Oliveira):
No problem, man. I'll ask it there. It was just because I thought not
being able to use window_function result in filters for FloatFields would
point to something regarding a feature request.
I'll let you all know if they narrow down to some specific issue.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29561#comment:3>