#24709: ArrayField doesn't support .update() and F() objects
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     Reporter:  ris                  |                    Owner:  nobody
         Type:  New feature          |                   Status:  new
    Component:  contrib.postgres     |                  Version:  1.8
     Severity:  Normal               |               Resolution:
     Keywords:  postgresql contrib   |             Triage Stage:  Accepted
  arrayfield update                  |
    Has patch:  0                    |      Needs documentation:  0
  Needs tests:  0                    |  Patch needs improvement:  0
Easy pickings:  0                    |                    UI/UX:  0
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Comment (by Frederik Creemers):

 I'm not that familiar with the internals, so I don't know if my use case
 helps flesh out ideas for how to implement this, but here's what I have:

 I have a score_weights list, which is an array of floating point
 numbers.Every User has a "scores" field, containing an array with the same
 number of items. I'd like to sort users by a weighted sum of these scores,
 with the weights coming from this score_weights list. In other words, the
 users are ordered by the dot product of their scores array and the
 score_weights array.


 {{{
 order_expression = -1 * sum([
     F("scores__%s" % i) * score_weights[i]
     for i in xrange(len(crit.score_weights))
 ])
 }}}

 Currently, this raises this error:

 {{{
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 256, in __iter__
     self._fetch_all()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 1087, in _fetch_all
     self._result_cache = list(self.iterator())
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 54, in __iter__
     results = compiler.execute_sql()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 824, in execute_sql
     sql, params = self.as_sql()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 369, in as_sql
     extra_select, order_by, group_by = self.pre_sql_setup()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 47, in
 pre_sql_setup
     order_by = self.get_order_by()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 308, in
 get_order_by
     self.query, allow_joins=True, reuse=None)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 209, in
 resolve_expression
     for expr in c.get_source_expressions()
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 404, in
 resolve_expression
     c.rhs = c.rhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 403, in
 resolve_expression
     c.lhs = c.lhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 403, in
 resolve_expression
     c.lhs = c.lhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 403, in
 resolve_expression
     c.lhs = c.lhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 403, in
 resolve_expression
     c.lhs = c.lhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 404, in
 resolve_expression
     c.rhs = c.rhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 403, in
 resolve_expression
     c.lhs = c.lhs.resolve_expression(query, allow_joins, reuse, summarize,
 for_save)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/expressions.py", line 463, in
 resolve_expression
     return query.resolve_ref(self.name, allow_joins, reuse, summarize)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 1462, in resolve_ref
     self.get_initial_alias(), reuse)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 1402, in setup_joins
     names, opts, allow_many, fail_on_missing=True)
   File "/Users/frederikcreemers/.virtualenvs/employebla/lib/python2.7
 /site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 1370, in names_to_path
     " not permitted." % (names[pos + 1], name))
 FieldError: Cannot resolve keyword u'0' into field. Join on 'scores' not
 permitted.
 }}}

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