Dead code in the sequence_reset_sql for postgres and oracle

[axil]

In the definition of sequence_reset_sql function in django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py and django/db/backends/oracle/operations.py files

   def sequence_reset_sql(self, style, model_list):
       from django.db import models
       output = []
       qn = self.quote_name

       for model in model_list:
            # Use `coalesce` to set the sequence for each model to the max pk value if there are records,
            # or 1 if there are none. Set the `is_called` property (the third argument to `setval`) to true
            # if there are records (as the max pk value is already in use), otherwise set it to false.
            # Use pg_get_serial_sequence to get the underlying sequence name from the table name
            # and column name (available since PostgreSQL 8)

            for f in model._meta.local_fields:
                if isinstance(f, models.AutoField):
                    output.append(
                        "%s setval(pg_get_serial_sequence('%s','%s'), "
                        "coalesce(max(%s), 1), max(%s) %s null) %s %s;" % (
                            style.SQL_KEYWORD('SELECT'),
                            style.SQL_TABLE(qn(model._meta.db_table)),
                            style.SQL_FIELD(f.column),
                            style.SQL_FIELD(qn(f.column)),
                            style.SQL_FIELD(qn(f.column)),
                            style.SQL_KEYWORD('IS NOT'),
                            style.SQL_KEYWORD('FROM'),
                            style.SQL_TABLE(qn(model._meta.db_table)),
                        )
                    )
                    break  # Only one AutoField is allowed per model, so don't bother continuing.
            for f in model._meta.many_to_many:
                if not f.remote_field.through:
##                    output.append(
##                       "%s setval(pg_get_serial_sequence('%s','%s'), "
##                        "coalesce(max(%s), 1), max(%s) %s null) %s %s;" % (
##                           style.SQL_KEYWORD('SELECT'),
##                            style.SQL_TABLE(qn(f.m2m_db_table())),
##                            style.SQL_FIELD('id'),
##                            style.SQL_FIELD(qn('id')),
##                            style.SQL_FIELD(qn('id')),
##                            style.SQL_KEYWORD('IS NOT'),
##                            style.SQL_KEYWORD('FROM'),
##                            style.SQL_TABLE(qn(f.m2m_db_table()))
##                        )
##                    )
        return output        

The statement marked with ## never executes.

11 years ago when this code was written (ticket #11107) this if not f.remote_field.through: was a valid way to check if the ManyToManyField uses the user-provided intermediate through table or not. Nowadays bool(f.remote_field.through) always evaluates to True, no matter if it is a user-provided or an automatic table.

But actually it is not necessary anymore. This function is used in three places in django code:

1) manage.py sqlsequencereset uses

models = app_config.get_models(include_auto_created=True)

instead of the original

models = app_config.get_models()

which was there when this ticket 11107 was merged. So now it fetches both automatic and user-defined intermediate tables at the ealier stage, before going.

2) loaddata is unaffected by this branch of execution because it needs to reset the sequences solely of the models that are being loaded and not of any others. To be 100% sure I created a project reproduced the models.py from 11107 and loaded the fixture provided there with manage.py loaddata - it succeeded without entering into that execution branch.

3) django.contrib.sites.management.create_default_site applies it to the Site model

sequence_sql = connections[using].ops.sequence_reset_sql(no_style(), [Site])

which has no manytomany keys, so it is unaffected.

I would suggest to remove the code marked with "##" and check for other usages of f.remote_field.through for similar issues.