How to query as GROUP BY in django?

Question

I query a model:

Members.objects.all()

And it returns:

Eric, Salesman, X-Shop
Freddie, Manager, X2-Shop
Teddy, Salesman, X2         


        

Answer 1

An easy solution, but not the proper way is to use raw SQL:

results = Members.objects.raw('SELECT * FROM myapp_members GROUP BY designation')

Another solution is to use the group_by property:

query = Members.objects.all().query
query.group_by = ['designation']
results = QuerySet(query=query, model=Members)

You can now iterate over the results variable to retrieve your results. Note that group_by is not documented and may be changed in future version of Django.

And... why do you want to use group_by? If you don't use aggregation, you can use order_by to achieve an alike result.