On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:29 PM, anubhav joshi <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> values() and values_list() are both intended as optimisations for a
>> specific use case - retrieval of subsets of data without the overhead of
>> creating a model instance. This metaphor completely falls apart when
>> dealing with m2m relations, because the the "one row, one object" metaphor
>> that underpins most of the ORM falls apart.
>>
>> I agree with you on this. "one-row,one-object" cannot be implemented here.
>

Well, it *can* be implemented - just not in a way that is both
computationally efficient *and* backwards compatible.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

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