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16609	Admin searches produce duplicate results if search_fields contains M2M traversals	cheater00@…	nobody	"I believe this has already been touched upon in #15819, however the consensus (comment ticket:15819#comment:13) was 

""For people in situations where `.distinct()` is broken for whatever reason, the workaround here is simple: don't use `search_fields` with relations in a way that triggers it.""

I couldn't find a ticket for this, so here it is.

In my case, I am searching for a keyword which is found in a `search_fields` item that isn't traversing M2M. When `search_fields` also contains a M2M traversal, I get duplicate results.

In my case - this might be relevant or not - I am traversing a !ForeignKey first and then an M2M field in that problematic search_fields entry, e.g:

{{{
search_fields = ['=id', '=fkmodel__m2mmodel__name']
}}}

This happens even though the string is not matched by `fkmodel__m2mmodel__name`, only by `id`.

This might not be clear, this is what the model relations look like:

{{{
(Model SearchedModel) --ForeignKey--> (Model FKModel) --ManyToMany--> (Model M2MModel)
}}}

M2MModel contains the name field that I have specified in `search_fields`.

This might or might not be related to #15559.

I have tested this against 1.3, yesterday's 1.3.X, and yesterday's dev and it is broken in all of them. (today is 10 Aug 2011)



"	Bug	new	contrib.admin	dev	Normal		search_fields m2m duplicate duplicates	cheater00@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0