How to left outer join with extra condition in Django

Question

I have these three models:

class Track(models.Model):
    title = models.TextField()
    artist = models.TextField()

class Tag(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

class TrackHasTag(models.Model):
    track = models.ForeignKey('Track', on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    tag = models.ForeignKey('Tag', on_delete=models.PROTECT)

And I want to retrieve all Tracks that are not tagged with a specific tag. This gets me what I want: Track.objects.exclude(trackhastag__tag_id='1').only('id') but it's very slow when the tables grow. This is what I get when printing .query of the queryset:

SELECT "track"."id" 
FROM   "track" 
WHERE  NOT ( "track"."id" IN (SELECT U1."track_id" AS Col1 
                              FROM   "trackhastag" U1 
                              WHERE  U1."tag_id" = 1) )

I would like Django to send this query instead:

SELECT "track"."id" 
FROM   "track" 
       LEFT OUTER JOIN "trackhastag" 
                    ON "track"."id" = "trackhastag"."track_id" 
                       AND "trackhastag"."tag_id" = 1 
WHERE  "trackhastag"."id" IS NULL; 

But haven't found a way to do so. Using a Raw Query is not really an option as I have to filter the resulting queryset very often.

The cleanest workaround I have found is to create a view in the database and a model TrackHasTagFoo with managed = False that I use to query like: Track.objects.filter(trackhastagfoo__isnull=True). I don't think this is an elegant nor sustainable solution as it involves adding Raw SQL to my migrations to mantain said view.

This is just one example of a situation where we need to do this kind of left join with an extra condition, but the truth is that we are facing this problem in more parts of our application.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

As mentioned in Django #29555 you can use FilteredRelation for this purpose since Django 2.0.

Track.objects.annotate(
    has_tag=FilteredRelation(
        'trackhastag', condition=Q(trackhastag__tag=1)
    ),
).filter(
    has_tag__isnull=True,
)