Refactored compiler SELECT, GROUP BY and ORDER BY generation.
While there, also refactored select_related() implementation
(get_cached_row() and get_klass_info() are now gone!).
Made get_db_converters() method work on expressions instead of
internal_type. This allows the backend converters to target
specific expressions if need be.
Added query.context, this can be used to set per-query state.
Also changed the signature of database converters. They now accept
context as an argument.
Also removed Query.join_map. This structure was used to speed up join
reuse calculation. Initial benchmarking shows that this isn't actually
needed. If there are use cases where the removal has real-world
performance implications, it should be relatively straightforward to
reintroduce it as map {alias: [Join-like objects]}.
Aggregation over subquery produced syntactically incorrect queries in
some cases as Django didn't ensure that source expressions of the
aggregation were present in the subquery.
The .dates() queries were implemented by using custom Query, QuerySet,
and Compiler classes. Instead implement them by using expressions and
database converters APIs.
Added relabeled_clone() method to sql.Query to fix the problem. It
manifested itself in rare cases where at least double nested subquery's
filter condition might target non-existing alias.
Thanks to Trac alias ris for reporting the problem.
Complete rework of translating data values from database
Deprecation of SubfieldBase, removal of resolve_columns and
convert_values in favour of a more general converter based approach and
public API Field.from_db_value(). Now works seamlessly with aggregation,
.values() and raw queries.
Thanks to akaariai in particular for extensive advice and inspiration,
also to shaib, manfre and timograham for their reviews.
A regression caused queries to produce incorrect results for cases where
extra(select) is excluded by values() but included by extra(order_by)
The regression was caused by 2f35c6f10f.
Ordering by reverse foreign key was broken by custom lookups patch
(commit 20bab2cf9d).
Thanks to everybody who helped solving this issue. Special thanks to
Trac alias takis for reporting this.
The ticket was originally about two failing tests, which are
fixed by putting their queries in transactions.
Thanks Tim Graham for the report, Aymeric Augustin for the fix,
and Simon Charette, Tim Graham & Loïc Bistuer for review.
Previously, saving a model instance to a non-related field (in
particular a FloatField) would silently convert the model to an Integer
(the pk) and save it. This is undesirable behaviour, and likely to cause
confusion so the validatio has been hardened.
Thanks to @PirosB3 for the patch and @jarshwah for the review.
This commit touchs various parts of the code base and test framework. Any
found usage of opening a cursor for the sake of initializing a connection
has been replaced with 'ensure_connection()'.
Updated SQLUpdateCompiler.execute_sql to match the behavior described in
the docstring; the 'first non-empty query' will now include all queries,
not just the main and first related update.
Added CURSOR and NO_RESULTS result_type constants to make the usages more
self documenting and allow execute_sql to explicitly close the cursor when
it is no longer needed.
Allowed users to specify which lookups or transforms ("nested lookus")
are available for fields. The implementation is now class based.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit fa7a7195f1
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 18 10:53:24 2014 +0200
Added lookup registration API docs
commit eb1c8ce164
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jan 14 18:59:36 2014 +0200
Release notes and other minor docs changes
commit 11501c29c9
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 20:53:03 2014 +0200
Forgot to add custom_lookups tests in prev commit
commit 83173b960e
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 19:59:12 2014 +0200
Renamed Extract -> Transform
commit 3b18d9f3a1
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 19:51:53 2014 +0200
Removed suggestion of temporary lookup registration from docs
commit 21d0c7631c
Merge: 2509006f2dc442
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 09:38:23 2014 -0800
Merge pull request #2 from mjtamlyn/lookups_3
Reworked custom lookups docs.
commit f2dc4429a1
Author: Marc Tamlyn <marc.tamlyn@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 13:15:05 2014 +0000
Reworked custom lookups docs.
Mostly just formatting and rewording, but also replaced the example
using ``YearExtract`` to use an example which is unlikely to ever be
possible directly in the ORM.
commit 2509006506
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 12 13:19:13 2014 +0200
Removed unused import
commit 4fba5dfaa0
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 22:34:41 2014 +0200
Added docs to index
commit 6d53963f37
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 22:10:24 2014 +0200
Dead code removal
commit f9cc039007
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 19:00:43 2014 +0200
A new try for docs
commit 33aa18a6e3
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 14:57:12 2014 +0200
Renamed get_cols to get_group_by_cols
commit c7d5f8661b
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 14:45:53 2014 +0200
Altered query string customization for backends vendors
The new way is trying to call first method 'as_' + connection.vendor.
If that doesn't exist, then call as_sql().
Also altered how lookup registration is done. There is now
RegisterLookupMixin class that is used by Field, Extract and
sql.Aggregate. This allows one to register lookups for extracts and
aggregates in the same way lookup registration is done for fields.
commit 90e7004ec1
Merge: 66649fff7c2c0a
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 13:21:01 2014 +0200
Merge branch 'master' into lookups_3
commit 66649ff891
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 11 13:16:01 2014 +0200
Some rewording in docs
commit 31b8faa627
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 29 15:52:29 2013 +0200
Cleanup based on review comments
commit 1016159f34
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 28 18:37:04 2013 +0200
Proof-of-concept fix for #16731
Implemented only for SQLite and PostgreSQL, and only for startswith
and istartswith lookups.
commit 193cd097ca
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 28 17:57:58 2013 +0200
Fixed#11722 -- iexact=F() produced invalid SQL
commit 08ed3c3b49
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 21 23:59:52 2013 +0200
Made Lookup and Extract available from django.db.models
commit b99c8d83c9
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 21 23:06:29 2013 +0200
Fixed review notes by Loic
commit 049eebc070
Merge: ed8fab7b80a835
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 21 22:53:10 2013 +0200
Merge branch 'master' into lookups_3
Conflicts:
django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
django/db/models/sql/compiler.py
django/db/models/sql/query.py
tests/null_queries/tests.py
commit ed8fab7fe8
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 21 22:47:23 2013 +0200
Made Extracts aware of full lookup path
commit 27a57b7aed
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 21:10:11 2013 +0200
Removed debugger import
commit 074e0f5aca
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 21:02:16 2013 +0200
GIS lookup support added
commit 760e28e72b
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 20:04:31 2013 +0200
Removed usage of Constraint, used Lookup instead
commit eac4776684
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 02:22:30 2013 +0200
Minor cleanup of Lookup API
commit 2adf50428d
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 02:14:19 2013 +0200
Added documentation, polished implementation
commit 32c04357a8
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Nov 30 23:10:15 2013 +0200
Avoid OrderedDict creation on lookup aggregate check
commit 7c8b3a32cc
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Nov 30 23:04:34 2013 +0200
Implemented nested lookups
But there is no support of using lookups outside filtering yet.
commit 4d219d4cde
Author: Anssi Kääriäinen <akaariai@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Nov 27 22:07:30 2013 +0200
Initial implementation of custom lookups
This commit introduced a new class JoinPromoter that can be used to
abstract away join promotion problems for complex filter conditions.
Query._add_q() and Query.combine() now use the new class.
Also, added a lot of comments about why join promotion is done the way
it is.
Thanks to Tim Graham for original report and testing the changes, and
for Loic Bistuer for review.
The typo could have consequences in exceptional cases, but I didn't
figure out a way to actually produce such a case, so not tests.
Report & patch by Michael Manfre.
select_related('foo').select_related('bar') is now equivalent to
select_related('foo', 'bar').
Also reworded docs to recommend select_related(*fields) over select_related()
The use of OrderedDict (even an empty one) was surprisingly slow. By
initializing OrderedDict only when needed it is possible to save
non-trivial amount of computing time (Model.save() is around 30% faster
for example).
This commit targetted sql.Query only, there are likely other places
which could use similar optimizations.
In cases where the same connection (from model A to model B along the
same field) was needed multiple times in a select_related query, the
join setup code mistakenly reused an existing join.
If LEFT JOINs are required for correct results, then trimming the join
can lead to incorrect results. Consider case:
TBL A: ID | TBL B: ID A_ID
1 1 1
2
Now A.order_by('b__a') did use a join to B, and B's a_id column. This
was seen to contain the same value as A's id, and so the join was
trimmed. But this wasn't correct as the join is LEFT JOIN, and for row
A.id = 2 the B.a_id column is NULL.
The bug was already fixed by 01b9c3d519,
so only tests added.
At the same time promote_joins()'s uncoditional flag is gone, it isn't
needed for anything any more.
All Promise objects were passed to force_text() deep in ORM query code.
Not only does this make it difficult or impossible for developers to
prevent or alter this behaviour, but it is also wrong for non-text
fields.
This commit changes `Field.get_prep_value()` from a no-op to one that
resolved Promise objects. All subclasses now call super() method first
to ensure that they have a real value to work with.
In the combination of .values().aggregate() the aggregate_select_mask
didn't include the aggregates added. This resulted in bogus query.
Thanks to Trac alias debanshuk for report.
There were a couple of places which used Query.join() directly. By
using setup_joins() in these places the code is more DRY, and in
addition there is no need to directly call field.get_joining_columns()
unless the field is the given join_field from get_path_info(). This
makes it easier to make sure a ForeignObject subclass generates joins
correctly in all cases.
The join used by select_related was incorrectly INNER when the query
had an ORed filter for nullable join that was trimmed away. Fixed this
by forcing the join type to LOUTER even when a join was trimmed away
in ORed queries.
The patch for #19385 caused a regression in certain generic relations
.exclude() filters if a subquery was needed. The fix contains a
refactoring to how Query.split_exclude() and Query.trim_start()
interact.
Thanks to Trac alias nferrari for the report.
Correctly calculate the ``aggregate_start`` offset from loaded fields,
if any are deferred, instead of ``self.query.select`` which includes all
fields on the model.
Also made some PEP 8 fixes.
The SubqueryConstraint defined relabeled_clone(), but that was never
called. Instead there is now clone() and relabel_aliases() methods for
SubqueryConstraint.
A related problem was that SubqueryConstraint didn't correctly use
quote_name_unless_alias() of the outer query. This resulted in failures
when running under PostgreSQL.
The sql/query.py add_q method did a lot of where/having tree hacking to
get complex queries to work correctly. The logic was refactored so that
it should be simpler to understand. The new logic should also produce
leaner WHERE conditions.
The changes cascade somewhat, as some other parts of Django (like
add_filter() and WhereNode) expect boolean trees in certain format or
they fail to work. So to fix the add_q() one must fix utils/tree.py,
some things in add_filter(), WhereNode and so on.
This commit also fixed add_filter to see negate clauses up the path.
A query like .exclude(Q(reversefk__in=a_list)) didn't work similarly to
.filter(~Q(reversefk__in=a_list)). The reason for this is that only
the immediate parent negate clauses were seen by add_filter, and thus a
tree like AND: (NOT AND: (AND: condition)) will not be handled
correctly, as there is one intermediary AND node in the tree. The
example tree is generated by .exclude(~Q(reversefk__in=a_list)).
Still, aggregation lost connectors in OR cases, and F() objects and
aggregates in same filter clause caused GROUP BY problems on some
databases.
Fixed#17600, fixed#13198, fixed#17025, fixed#17000, fixed#11293.
Before there was need to have both .relabel_aliases() and .clone() for
many structs. Now there is only relabeled_clone() for those structs
where alias is the only mutable attribute.
There were a couple of errors in ._dirty flag handling:
* It started as None, but was never reset to None.
* The _dirty flag was sometimes used to indicate if the connection
was inside transaction management, but this was not done
consistently. This also meant the flag had three separate values.
* The None value had a special meaning, causing for example inability
to commit() on new connection unless enter/leave tx management was
done.
* The _dirty was tracking "connection in transaction" state, but only
in managed transactions.
* Some tests never reset the transaction state of the used connection.
* And some additional less important changes.
This commit has some potential for regressions, but as the above list
shows, the current situation isn't perfect either.
There was a regression in case two models inherited the same parent,
and one contained a foreign key to other. When select_related travelled
the foreign key the other model reused the parent join made by the
first model. This was likely caused by Query.join_parent_model()
addition in commit 68985db482.
Thanks to Trac alias loic84 for report & tests.
The join promote=True was over-aggressive in select_related handling.
After that was removed, the only other user was query.combine(). That
use case is very easy to handle locally, so there is no more need for
the join(promote=True) flag.
Refs #19849.
The refactoring mainly concentrates on making sure the inner and outer
query agree about the split position. The split position is where the
multijoin happens, and thus the split position also determines the
columns used in the "WHERE col1 IN (SELECT col2 from ...)" condition.
This commit fixes a regression caused by #10790 and commit
69597e5bcc. The regression was caused
by wrong cols in the split position.
Thanks Carl Meyer for the review.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 4f290bdb60
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Wed Feb 13 21:21:30 2013 +0100
Used '0:00' instead of 'UTC' which doesn't always exist in Oracle.
Thanks Ian Kelly for the suggestion.
commit 01b6366f3c
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Wed Feb 13 13:38:43 2013 +0100
Made tzname a parameter of datetime_extract/trunc_sql.
This is required to work around a bug in Oracle.
commit 924a144ef8
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Wed Feb 13 14:47:44 2013 +0100
Added support for parameters in SELECT clauses.
commit b4351d2890
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 22:30:22 2013 +0100
Documented backwards incompatibilities in the two previous commits.
commit 91ef84713c
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 09:42:31 2013 +0100
Used QuerySet.datetimes for the admin's date_hierarchy.
commit 0d0de288a5
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 09:29:38 2013 +0100
Used QuerySet.datetimes in date-based generic views.
commit 9c0859ff7c
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:43:25 2013 +0100
Implemented QuerySet.datetimes on Oracle.
commit 68ab511a4f
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:43:14 2013 +0100
Implemented QuerySet.datetimes on MySQL.
commit 22d52681d3
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:42:29 2013 +0100
Implemented QuerySet.datetimes on SQLite.
commit f6800fd04c
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:43:03 2013 +0100
Implemented QuerySet.datetimes on PostgreSQL.
commit 0c829c23f4
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:41:08 2013 +0100
Added datetime-handling infrastructure in the ORM layers.
commit 104d82a777
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 10:05:55 2013 +0100
Updated null_queries tests to avoid clashing with the __second lookup.
commit c01bbb3235
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 23:07:41 2013 +0100
Updated tests of .dates().
Replaced .dates() by .datetimes() for DateTimeFields.
Replaced dates with datetimes in the expected output for DateFields.
commit 50fb7a5246
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 21:40:09 2013 +0100
Updated and added tests for QuerySet.datetimes.
commit a8451a5004
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 22:34:46 2013 +0100
Documented the new time lookups and updated the date lookups.
commit 29413eab2b
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Feb 10 16:15:49 2013 +0100
Documented QuerySet.datetimes and updated QuerySet.dates.
value_annotation isn't very well defined. Before this change, setting it
to datetime.datetime could silently reverse the behavior of isnull
lookups. This commit doesn't have any consequences on the current code.
It's just a safeguard for future ORM hackers.
Previously it was possible to call clear_ordering without the
force_empty argument. The result was that the query was still ordered
by model's meta ordering if that was defined. By making the arg
mandatory it will be easier to spot possible errors caused by assuming
clear_ordering will remove all ordering.
Thanks to Dylan Klomparens for the suggestion. Refs #19720.
The original problem was that queryset cloning was really expensive
when filtering with F() clauses. The __deepcopy__ went too deep copying
_meta attributes of the models used. To fix this the use of
__deepcopy__ in qs cloning was removed.
This commit results in some speed improvements across the djangobench
benchmark suite. Most query_* tests are 20-30% faster, save() is 50%
faster and finally complex filtering situations can see 2x to order
of magnitude improvments.
Thanks to Suor, Alex and lrekucki for valuable feedback.
The guarantee that no queries will be made when accessing results is
done by new EmptyWhere class which is used for query.where and having.
Thanks to Simon Charette for reviewing and valuable suggestions.
The added promotion logic is based on promoting any joins used in only
some of the childs of an OR clause unless the join existed before the
OR clause addition.
The ORM didn't reuse joins for direct foreign key traversals when using
chained filters. For example:
qs.filter(fk__somefield=1).filter(fk__somefield=2))
produced two joins.
As a bonus, reverse onetoone filters can now reuse joins correctly
The regression was caused by the join() method refactor in commit
68847135bc
Thanks for Simon Charette for spotting some issues with the first draft
of the patch.
This is a rather large refactoring. The "lookup traversal" code was
splitted out from the setup_joins. There is now names_to_path() method
which does the lookup traveling, the actual work of setup_joins() is
calling names_to_path() and then adding the joins found into the query.
As a side effect it was possible to remove the "process_extra"
functionality used by genric relations. This never worked for left
joins. Now the extra restriction is appended directly to the join
condition instead of the where clause.
To generate the extra condition we need to have the join field
available in the compiler. This has the side-effect that we need more
ugly code in Query.__getstate__ and __setstate__ as Field objects
aren't pickleable.
The join trimming code got a big change - now we trim all direct joins
and never trim reverse joins. This also fixes the problem in #10790
which was join trimming in null filter cases.
The trim argument was used by split_exclude() only to trim the last
join from the given lookup. It is cleaner to just trim the last part
from the lookup in split_exclude() directly so that there is no need
to burden add_filter() with the logic needed for only split_exclude().
F() expressions reuse joins like any lookup in a .filter() call -
reuse multijoins generated in the same .filter() call else generate
new joins. Also, lookups can now reuse joins generated by F().
This change is backwards incompatible, but it is required to prevent
dict randomization from generating different queries depending on
.filter() kwarg ordering. The new way is also more consistent in how
joins are reused.
The select_related code got confused when it needed to travel a
reverse relation to a model which had different parent than the
originally travelled relation.
Thanks to Trac aliases shauncutts for report and ungenio for original
patch (committed patch is somewhat modified version of that).
The problem is the same as in #10888 which was reintroduced when
bulk_insert was added. Thanks to Jani Tiainen for report, patch and
also testing the final patch on Oracle GIS.
The dupe avoidance logic was removed as it doesn't seem to do anything,
it is complicated, and it has nearly zero documentation.
The removal of dupe_avoidance allowed for refactoring of both the
implementation and signature of Query.join(). This refactoring cascades
again to some other parts. The most significant of them is the changes
in qs.combine(), and compiler.select_related_descent().
The Query.select and Query.select_fields were collapsed into one list
because the attributes had to be always in sync. Now that they are in
one attribute it is impossible to edit them out of sync.
Similar collapse was done for Query.related_select_cols and
Query.related_select_fields.
There was a bug introduced in #18676 which caused fast-path deletes
implemented as "DELETE WHERE pk IN <subquery>" to fail if the SELECT
clause contained additional stuff (for example extra() and annotate()).
Thanks to Trac alias pressureman for spotting this regression.
RETURNING is an extension of the SQL standard, which is not implemented
the same by all databases. Allow DatabaseOperations.return_insert_id to
return a None to allow for other 3rd party backends with a different
implementation.
Objects can be fast-path deleted if there are no signals, and there are
no further cascades. If fast-path is taken, the objects do not need to
be loaded into memory before deletion.
Thanks to Jeremy Dunck, Simon Charette and Alex Gaynor for reviewing
the patch.
When doing deeper than one level select_related() + only queries(), the
code introduced in b6c356b7bb errored
incorrectly.
Thanks to mrmachine for report & test case.
In an ideal world, nothing except django.db.models.query should have to
import stuff from django.models.sql.*. A few things were needing to get
hold of sql.constants.LOOKUP_SEP, so this commit moves it up to
django.db.models.constants.LOOKUP_SEP.
There are still a couple of places (admin) poking into sql.* to get
QUERY_TERMS, which is unfortunate, but a slightly different issue and
harder to adjust.
The joins for nested nullable foreign keys were often created as INNER
when they should have been OUTER joins. The reason was that only the
first join in the chain was promoted correctly. There were also issues
with select_related etc.
The basic structure for this problem was:
A -[nullable]-> B -[nonnull]-> C
And the basic problem was that the A->B join was correctly LOUTER,
the B->C join not.
The major change taken in this patch is that now if we promote a join
A->B, we will automatically promote joins B->X for all X in the query.
Also, we now make sure there aren't ever join chains like:
a LOUTER b INNER c
If the a -> b needs to be LOUTER, then the INNER at the end of the
chain will cancel the LOUTER join and we have a broken query.
Sebastian reported this problem and did also major portions of the
patch.
The ORM generated a query with INNER JOIN instead of LEFT OUTER JOIN
in a somewhat complicated case. The main issue was that there was a
chain of nullable FK -> non-nullble FK, and the join promotion logic
didn't see the need to promote the non-nullable FK even if the
previous nullable FK was already promoted to LOUTER JOIN. This resulted
in a query like a LOUTER b INNER c, which incorrectly prunes results.
* Renamed smart_unicode to smart_text (but kept the old name under
Python 2 for backwards compatibility).
* Renamed smart_str to smart_bytes.
* Re-introduced smart_str as an alias for smart_text under Python 3
and smart_bytes under Python 2 (which is backwards compatible).
Thus smart_str always returns a str objects.
* Used the new smart_str in a few places where both Python 2 and 3
want a str.
Cleared aggregations on add_date_select method so only distinct dates
are returned when dealing with a QuerySet that contained aggregations.
That would cause the query set to return repeated dates because it
would look for distinct (date kind, aggregation) pairs.