Can I remove ORDER BY from a Django ORM query?

Question

It seems like Django by default adds ORDER BY to queries. Can I clear it?

from slowstagram.models imp         


        

Answer 1

You can use: clear_ordering method from query

"""Removes any ordering settings. 

If 'force_empty' is True, there will be no ordering in the resulting
query (not even the model's default).
"""

Example:

>>> from products.models import Product
>>> products = Product.objects.filter(shortdesc='falda').order_by('id')
>>> print products.query
SELECT "products_product"."id", "products_product"."shortdesc"
WHERE "products_product"."shortdesc" = falda
ORDER BY "products_product"."id" ASC
>>> products.query.clear_ordering()
>>> print products.query
SELECT "products_product"."id", "products_product"."shortdesc"
WHERE "products_product"."shortdesc" = falda