Hey, what about this 
one: qs.prefetch_related('best_pizza__toppings__topping_type_*')

It is intuitive and simple. But of course, that would mean to add wildcard 
support everywhere.

On Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:18:20 PM UTC+1, Yo-Yo Ma wrote:
>
> Speaking with regards to the ORM method documented at 
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#prefetch-related 
>
> Of course, ``prefetch_related`` uses a Pythonic join to attach reverse- 
> related objects and avoids the N+1 queries problem, which of course is 
> great. However, if you use it like this: 
>
> >>> 
> Restaurant.objects.prefetch_related('best_pizza__toppings__topping_type') 
>
> It doesn't seem to take advantage ``select_related`` (assuming that 
> ``topping_type`` is a ``ForeignKey`` from ``Topping``. It instead 
> sends a separate query for ``Topping`` and ``ToppingType``, joining 
> them in Python. Is it feasible to modify ``prefetch_related`` use 
> ``select_related`` when it encounters a ``ForeignKey``?

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