Annotation's original field-name can clash with result field name over aggregation

[Shai Berger]

This is a bit of a continuation of #34123

With current Django main, if one aggregates over a model, while adding annotations of related fields; and an annotation comes from a field with the same name as a result field, it breaks.

This is easier to explain by example; consider this test, added to the aggregation_regress tests, so it uses their models; Book carries a FK to Publisher, a M2M to Author named authors, and a FK to Author (supposedly picking one of the related authors) named contact.

    def test_aggregate_and_annotate_duplicate_columns(self):
        results = Book.objects.values('isbn').annotate(
            name=F('publisher__name'),
            contact_name=F('contact__name'),
            num_authors=Count('authors'),
        )
        self.assertTrue(results)

The field isbn is not defined as unique, it was chosen in order to make sure there's an aggregation on the main table and not some sort of subquery -- and also, to get the Book model's own name field out of the way.

This blows up on Sqlite:

======================================================================
ERROR: test_aggregate_and_annotate_duplicate_columns (aggregation_regress.tests.AggregationTests)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/django/django/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 89, in _execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/home/django/django/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 378, in execute
    return super().execute(query, params)
sqlite3.OperationalError: ambiguous column name: name

and on Postgres

======================================================================
ERROR: test_aggregate_and_annotate_duplicate_columns (aggregation_regress.tests.AggregationTests)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/django/django/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 89, in _execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
psycopg2.errors.AmbiguousColumn: column reference "name" is ambiguous
LINE 1: ..._id") GROUP BY "aggregation_regress_book"."isbn", "name", "c...
                                                             ^

Note that if we change the name above to something else -- e.g.

            pub_name=F('publisher__name'),

then things seem to be working fine. Conversely, if we pick another related field for the name annotation:

            name=F('publisher__num_awards'),

then things stay broken.

This used to work, and now it doesn't. I've bisected this regression to b7b28c7c189615543218e81319473888bc46d831.

Thanks ​Matific for letting me work on this.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for the report!

Reproduced at 744a1af7f943106e30d538e6ace55c2c66ccd791.

[Simon Charette]

Thanks for the report Shai.

I stumbled upon something similar in #34123 when trying to have get_select use the values aliases instead of colN ones for aesthetic reasons.

Changes are required in SQLCompiler.get_select that are similar to ​the ones in sql.Query.set_group_by(allow_aliases=True).

[Simon Charette]

I didn't know that

Book.objects.values('isbn').annotate(
    name=F('publisher__name'),
)

was allowed but

> Book.objects.values('isbn', name=F('publisher__name'))
ValueError: The annotation 'name' conflicts with a field on the model.

wasn't which seems like a bug in #25871?

Anyway, I submitted ​this MR for review which avoids a complex refactor of get_select that would have necessitated reference repointing.

This means that group by reference will be disabled for annotations that conflict will a selected column name but I think that's an acceptable compromise given it should only have an incidence for with complex annotations that can't be collapsed assigned with ambiguous names. This a compromise we already took in #31377 as well and has a workaround for users that must get the group be reference; use an annotation name that doesn't conflict with an already selected column name.

[Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@…>]

In dd68af62:

Fixed #34176 -- Fixed grouping by ambiguous aliases.

Regression in b7b28c7c189615543218e81319473888bc46d831.

Refs #31377.

Thanks Shai Berger for the report and reviews.

test_aggregation_subquery_annotation_values_collision() has been
updated as queries that are explicitly grouped by a subquery should
always be grouped by it and not its outer columns even if its alias
collides with referenced table columns. This was not possible to
accomplish at the time 10866a10 landed because we didn't have compiler
level handling of colliding aliases.

[Simon Charette <charette.s@…>]

In f91e085:

Refs #34176 -- Adjusted group by position variables naming to follow SQL spec.

This avoids conceptual collisions with the notion of indices.