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2012-11-04 12:35:00 +01:00

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I'm setting up a testing environment for work, using fixtures to save
and load test data and I got a little stumped by something I ran into.
I had exported one of the database tables we use to a json file that I
was going to import into a fresh new database to test with. When I
imported it everything seemed fine, except when looking at the actual
page. So this is what I found:
[[!format sql """
SELECT * FROM app_table;
"""]]
<pre class="src src-sql">SELECT * FROM app_table;
=&gt; 3 rows of data</pre>
<pre class="src src-python"><span class="org-keyword">from</span> app.models <span class="org-keyword">import</span> Table
Table.objects.count()
=&gt; 3
Table.objects.<span class="org-builtin">all</span>()
=&gt; []</pre>
This is weird. So I looked at the `django.db.connection.queries`
property and I realized that it was doing a join since the model
subclasses another:
<pre class="src src-python"><span class="org-keyword">from</span> django.db <span class="org-keyword">import</span> models
<span class="org-keyword">from</span> app.models <span class="org-keyword">import</span> SuperTable
<span class="org-keyword">class</span> <span class="org-type">Table</span>(SuperTable):...</pre>
Which, of course, means that in order to get the complete `Table`
instance, the related `SuperTable` instance is also required, but in
order to do a `COUNT` of `app_table` it isn't necessary. And that's
where the inconsistency came from, now that I've also copied the
contents of `SuperTable` everything is fine again.
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