Sqlalchemy: subquery in FROM must have an alias

Question

How can I structure this sqlalchemy query so that it does the right thing?

I've given everything I can think of an alias, but I'm still getting:

ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.ProgrammingError) subquery in FROM must have an alias
LINE 4: FROM (SELECT foo.id AS foo_id, foo.version AS ...

Also, as IMSoP pointed out, it seems to be trying to turn it into a cross join, but I just want it to join a table with a group by subquery on that same table.

Here is the sqlalchemy:

(Note: I've rewritten it to be a standalone file that is as complete as possible and can be run from a python shell)

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, func, select
from sqlalchemy import Column, BigInteger, DateTime, Integer, String, SmallInteger
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

engine = create_engine('postgresql://postgres:#######@localhost:5435/foo1234')
session = sessionmaker()
session.configure(bind=engine)
session = session()

Base = declarative_base()

class Foo(Base):
     __tablename__ = 'foo'
     __table_args__ = {'schema': 'public'}
     id = Column('id', BigInteger, primary_key=True)
     time = Column('time', DateTime(timezone=True))
     version = Column('version', String)
     revision = Column('revision', SmallInteger)

foo_max_time_q = select([
     func.max(Foo.time).label('foo_max_time'),
     Foo.id.label('foo_id')
 ]).group_by(Foo.id
 ).alias('foo_max_time_q')

foo_q = select([
    Foo.id.label('foo_id'),
    Foo.version.label('foo_version'),
    Foo.revision.label('foo_revision'),
    foo_max_time_q.c.foo_max_time.label('foo_max_time')
]).join(foo_max_time_q, foo_max_time_q.c.foo_id == Foo.id
).alias('foo_q')

thing = session.query(foo_q).all()
print thing

generated sql:

SELECT foo_id AS foo_id,
    foo_version AS foo_version,
    foo_revision AS foo_revision,
    foo_max_time AS foo_max_time,
    foo_max_time_q.foo_max_time AS foo_max_time_q_foo_max_time,
    foo_max_time_q.foo_id AS foo_max_time_q_foo_id
    FROM (SELECT id AS foo_id,
        version AS foo_version,
        revision AS foo_revision,
        foo_max_time_q.foo_max_time AS foo_max_time
        FROM (SELECT max(time) AS foo_max_time,
            id AS foo_id GROUP BY id
        ) AS foo_max_time_q)
    JOIN (SELECT max(time) AS foo_max_time,
            id AS foo_id GROUP BY id
    ) AS foo_max_time_q
    ON foo_max_time_q.foo_id = id

and here is the toy table:

CREATE TABLE foo (
id bigint ,
time timestamp with time zone,
version character varying(32),
revision smallint
);

The SQL was I expecting to get (desired SQL) would be something like this:

SELECT foo.id AS foo_id,
       foo.version AS foo_version,
       foo.revision AS foo_revision,
       foo_max_time_q.foo_max_time AS foo_max_time
       FROM foo
       JOIN (SELECT max(time) AS foo_max_time,
            id AS foo_id GROUP BY id
            ) AS foo_max_time_q
        ON foo_max_time_q.foo_id = foo.id

Final note: I'm hoping to get an answer using select() instead of session.query() if possible. Thank you

Answer 1

You are almost there. Make a "selectable" subquery and join it with the main query via join():

foo_max_time_q = select([func.max(Foo.time).label('foo_max_time'),
                         Foo.id.label('foo_id')
                        ]).group_by(Foo.id
                         ).alias("foo_max_time_q")

foo_q = session.query(
          Foo.id.label('foo_id'),
          Foo.version.label('foo_version'),
          Foo.revision.label('foo_revision'),
          foo_max_time_q.c.foo_max_time.label('foo_max_time')
                ).join(foo_max_time_q, 
                       foo_max_time_q.c.foo_id == Foo.id)

print(foo_q.__str__())

Prints (prettified manually):

SELECT 
    foo.id AS foo_id, 
    foo.version AS foo_version, 
    foo.revision AS foo_revision, 
    foo_max_time_q.foo_max_time AS foo_max_time 
FROM 
    foo 
JOIN 
    (SELECT 
         max(foo.time) AS foo_max_time, 
         foo.id AS foo_id 
     FROM 
         foo 
     GROUP BY foo.id) AS foo_max_time_q 
ON 
    foo_max_time_q.foo_id = foo.id

The complete working code is available in this gist.