+1 on raw SQL in this instance.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Jian Chang <changjia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Using raw sql is a better idea
>
>
> 2011/7/11 Jonas Geiregat <jo...@geiregat.org>
>
>>
>>
>> In order to find the places in near by area I want to make following
>> mysql query. but I am not sure how should I translate it using django
>> models and managers.
>>
>>
>> You could execute the raw sql query string, see:
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/
>> for more information on the subject. Seeing the complexity of the query
>> and knowing it's a good working version why should you even bother
>> translating it to django's ORM framework ?
>>
>>
>> orig.lat = x
>> orig.lon = y
>>
>> "SELECT  destination.*,
>> 3956 * 2 * ASIN(SQRT(  POWER(SIN((orig.lat - dest.lat) * pi()/180 /
>> 2), 2) +
>> COS(orig.lat * pi()/180) *  COS(dest.lat * pi()/180) *
>> POWER(SIN((orig.lon -dest.lon) * pi()/180 / 2), 2)  )) as
>> distance
>> FROM place as dest
>> WHERE  dest.longitude
>> BETWEEN lon1 and lon2
>> AND dest.latitude
>> BETWEEN lat1 and lat2
>> "
>>
>> the model which talks to database is called Place in my case.
>>
>> Thank you all for the help,
>> sanket
>>
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>> Jonas Geiregat
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>>
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