defer and only are not respected by values and by valuest_list()

[pma_]

data model with 2 field owner and category

run query like
result = CatalogCategories.objects.only('id', 'category').values() #or values_list()

you always will get full record

[Austin Gabel]

This usage is incorrect. To limit the fields returned by values() they must be added as arguments. (ex. CatalogCategories.objects.values('id', 'category') ) Since you have not specified any fields, they will all be returned.
Documentation can be found at ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#values-fields
I'm changing this ticket to invalid.

[Luke Plant]

Just to clarify what agabel said: defer and only are about which attributes of an model instance are lazily loaded. values returns something entirely different, so it wouldn't make sense for it to be affected.