Hello there,

Lets say I have these two models (sorry about the spanish names!) ( Django 
1.8.6 and MySQL backend )

class Especialidad(models.Model):
    nombre = models.CharField(max_length=250, blank=False, unique=True)



class Usuario(AbstractBaseUser): 
    permisosEspecialidad = models.ManyToManyField("Especialidad", blank=True)

Let u be some Usuario instance, and the following query:

u.permisosEspecialidad.all().values_list('pk',flat=True)

The actual printed query is:

SELECT `samiBackend_especialidad`.`id`
FROM `samiBackend_especialidad` 
        INNER JOIN `samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad` ON ( 
`samiBackend_especialidad`.`id` = 
`samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad`.`especialidad_id` ) 
WHERE `samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad`.`usuario_id` = 8

As my understanding, since I'm only selecting the id field which is already 
present in the intermediary table (and is also a FK), the actual join is 
redundant, as I have all the info I need in this case.

So the query could work like this

SELECT `samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad`.`especialidad_id`
FROM  `samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad`
WHERE `samiBackend_usuario_permisosEspecialidad`.`usuario_id` = 8


I guess this works this way because this particular case might be hard to 
detect or won't be compatible with any additional query building, however, for 
ForeignKey relations, this optimization is already done (If you select the 
primary key from the selected model only, it wont add a join)

What would be the complications to implement this? Would it worth the effort?


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