BTW, aliased() and alias() don't work on a label() either. I tried passing the label object straight into the order_by() as well to no avail. I'm all out of ideas.
On Jan 9, 3:47 am, Yuen Ho Wong <wyue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather complicated problem and I was wondering if you guys > could help. > > So I have a query, session.query(Product, Merchant, d), where Product > is 1-to-many with Merchant, and d is the distance from some lat long. > d is actually a sqlalchemy.sql.label() of some complicated GeoAlchemy > function calls. > > Product has a number of collections in which I would like to load > using subqueryload_all() as well, and the result is ordered by > "distance" as in order_by("distance"), where "distance" is the name of > the label d. > > My problem is, since I'm supplying the Query object with an explicit > order_by() name, when I use subqueryload(), the order_by() name is put > into the subquery as is, because SQLAlchemy doesn't know any better > with a plain string. If I pass in a column element, SQLAlchemy seems > to know not to put an ORDER BY in the subquery. This seems to me like > a bug because a subqueryload() always join on the primary key of the > previous SELECT, so unless the name is the primary key name, it really > shouldn't be put in the subquery. > > So finally my question, if this is too hard to fix, is there an option > somewhere that I can tell SA to ignore the previous order_by() when > doing a subqueryload()? If not, and I can't wait for a fix now, is > there a way where I can turn my distance label into a ClauseElement so > that SA knows not to put into the subquery when loading collections? > > Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.