Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread NiL
Hi, thank you for your help, and the effort at writing a good piece of code. however, while playing around with, and trying to execute it in PGAdmin, I stumbled upon some problems the q = Session().query(Group).join(all_parents, all_parents.c.id==Group.id) generates a SQL like (I've

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Bayer
On Aug 12, 2011, at 6:00 AM, NiL wrote: Hi, thank you for your help, and the effort at writing a good piece of code. however, while playing around with, and trying to execute it in PGAdmin, I stumbled upon some problems the q = Session().query(Group).join(all_parents,

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread NiL
hi again, after playing a while with PG, here is a SQL statement that outputs the expected result SELECT groups_recursive.id AS groups_recursive_id, groups_recursive.name AS groups_recursive_name, groups_recursive.display_name AS groups_recursive_display_name FROM groups_recursive JOIN (WITH

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Bayer
sure, couple of small adjustments, attached On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:44 AM, NiL wrote: hi again, after playing a while with PG, here is a SQL statement that outputs the expected result SELECT groups_recursive.id AS groups_recursive_id, groups_recursive.name AS groups_recursive_name,

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread NiL
thank you so much Michael !! much better few last things are WITH RECURSIVE all_parents(id, rank) AS SELECT groups_recursive.id, 1 FROM groups_recursive, groups_recursive_parents__groups_recursive_children quotes around the 1, this leads to ERROR: column 1 does not exist + the param

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Bayer
its at the point where you should be able to tweak it using documented processes. column() applies quotes for example, whereas literal_column(1) would not. Same for an expression x + 1 will turn the 1 into a bind, would not if you again use literal_column()

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-12 Thread NiL
yes, many thanks I now have a method in my Group class (still in elixir syntax) def hierarchy_ng(self): with CommonTableExpression.create( all_parents, [id, rank]) as all_parents: rank = literal_column(rank) groups = Group.table groups_assoc =

[sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-11 Thread NiL
Hi list, I'm using SA 0.6.7, Python 2.6.5 and Postgres 8.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I'm trying to optimize my code against postgres by using the recursive statements CTE as documented here : http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/queries-with.html My model is a group graph ( many to many

Re: [sqlalchemy] joining to a from_statement

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Bayer
On Aug 11, 2011, at 12:31 PM, NiL wrote: Hi list, I'm using SA 0.6.7, Python 2.6.5 and Postgres 8.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I'm trying to optimize my code against postgres by using the recursive statements CTE as documented here :