On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Federico Delgado
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Please advice if there is a more performant or better looking solution for
> my problem. Thank you.

that's the general way to turn a function into a thing you can select
from, e.g. select().from(func.xyz()).alias(), the docs for this
approach near the end of the section
http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/tutorial.html#functions.

For Postgresql, there is a lot of request to handle functions that
return scalars and result sets more smoothly and there are plans to
eventually make that better, you may be able to get a more succinct
SQL query if you play with some of the recipes at
https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issues/3566/figure-out-how-to-support-all-of-pgs#comment-22842678
.

>
> On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 5:15:41 PM UTC-7, Federico Delgado wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having problems trying to figure out this.
>>
>> Using: SqlAlchemy 1.1.12
>> PostgreSQL: 9.6
>> Python: 2.7.13
>>
>> I have a simple entity:
>>
>> class Package(Base):
>>     __tablename__ = 'package'
>>     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
>>     name = Column(String(255))
>>
>>
>> and a function in my DB that performs some operations and returns just a
>> list of IDs in a particular order that I have to maintain. This function is
>> called 'calculate_rankings' and returns a table. The first lines are:
>>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.calculate_rankings(pattern text)
>>     RETURNS TABLE(id integer, weight bigint)
>>     LANGUAGE 'sql'
>>
>>
>> So ideally I'd like to do something like (this is just a sample):
>>
>> my_function =  func.calculate_rankings('somestring')
>> session.query(Packages).filter(Packages.id ==
>> my_function.id).order_by(my_function.weight).all()
>>
>> I have tried multiple ways to accomplish this. Like using:
>>
>> my_function = select([column('id'), column('weight')]).select_from(func.
>> calculate_rankings('somestring'))
>>
>> But that results in a 'select' that I cannot use inside the query.
>>
>> but the most I could get is using in_ to ensure I am getting the correct
>> packages. For that I also had to drop the all important column weight.
>>
>> Maybe somebody can point me to the right resource?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Federico
>>
>>
>>
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