Fixed #24254 -- Fixed queries using the __in lookup with querysets using distinct() and order_by().

Thanks Tim for the review.

django/db/models/sql/compiler.py

@@ -523,6 +523,31 @@ class SQLCompiler:
             if for_update_part and not self.connection.features.for_update_after_from:
                 result.append(for_update_part)
 
+            if self.query.subquery and extra_select:
+                # If the query is used as a subquery, the extra selects would
+                # result in more columns than the left-hand side expression is
+                # expecting. This can happen when a subquery uses a combination
+                # of order_by() and distinct(), forcing the ordering expressions
+                # to be selected as well. Wrap the query in another subquery
+                # to exclude extraneous selects.
+                sub_selects = []
+                sub_params = []
+                for select, _, alias in self.select:
+                    if alias:
+                        sub_selects.append("%s.%s" % (
+                            self.connection.ops.quote_name('subquery'),
+                            self.connection.ops.quote_name(alias),
+                        ))
+                    else:
+                        select_clone = select.relabeled_clone({select.alias: 'subquery'})
+                        subselect, subparams = select_clone.as_sql(self, self.connection)
+                        sub_selects.append(subselect)
+                        sub_params.extend(subparams)
+                return 'SELECT %s FROM (%s) AS subquery' % (
+                    ', '.join(sub_selects),
+                    ' '.join(result),
+                ), sub_params + params
+
             return ' '.join(result), tuple(params)
         finally:
             # Finally do cleanup - get rid of the joins we created above.

tests/queries/tests.py

@@ -2005,10 +2005,10 @@ class QuerysetOrderedTests(unittest.TestCase):
 class SubqueryTests(TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpTestData(cls):
-        DumbCategory.objects.create(id=1)
-        DumbCategory.objects.create(id=2)
-        DumbCategory.objects.create(id=3)
-        DumbCategory.objects.create(id=4)
+        NamedCategory.objects.create(id=1, name='first')
+        NamedCategory.objects.create(id=2, name='second')
+        NamedCategory.objects.create(id=3, name='third')
+        NamedCategory.objects.create(id=4, name='fourth')
 
     def test_ordered_subselect(self):
         "Subselects honor any manual ordering"
@@ -2064,6 +2064,28 @@ class SubqueryTests(TestCase):
         DumbCategory.objects.filter(id__in=DumbCategory.objects.order_by('-id')[1:]).delete()
         self.assertEqual(set(DumbCategory.objects.values_list('id', flat=True)), {3})
 
+    def test_distinct_ordered_sliced_subquery(self):
+        # Implicit values('id').
+        self.assertSequenceEqual(
+            NamedCategory.objects.filter(
+                id__in=NamedCategory.objects.distinct().order_by('name')[0:2],
+            ).order_by('name').values_list('name', flat=True), ['first', 'fourth']
+        )
+        # Explicit values('id').
+        self.assertSequenceEqual(
+            NamedCategory.objects.filter(
+                id__in=NamedCategory.objects.distinct().order_by('-name').values('id')[0:2],
+            ).order_by('name').values_list('name', flat=True), ['second', 'third']
+        )
+        # Annotated value.
+        self.assertSequenceEqual(
+            DumbCategory.objects.filter(
+                id__in=DumbCategory.objects.annotate(
+                    double_id=F('id') * 2
+                ).order_by('id').distinct().values('double_id')[0:2],
+            ).order_by('id').values_list('id', flat=True), [2, 4]
+        )
+
 
 class CloneTests(TestCase):