How can I find the union of two Django querysets?

Question

I’ve got a Django model with two custom manager methods. Each returns a different subset of the model’s objects, based on a different property of the object.

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Answer 1

This works and looks a bit cleaner:

records = query1 | query2

If you don't want duplicates, then you will need to append .distinct():

records = (query1 | query2).distinct()

Answer 2

I would suggest using 'query1.union(query2)' instead of 'query1 | query2'; I got different results from the above two methods and the former one is what I expected. The following is what I had come across:

print "union result:"
for element in query_set1.union(query_set2):
    print element

print "| result:"
for element in (query_set1 | query_set2):
    print element

result:

union result:
KafkaTopic object
KafkaTopic object
KafkaTopic object
KafkaTopic object
KafkaTopic object

| result:
KafkaTopic object
KafkaTopic object

Answer 3

Starting from version 1.11, django querysets have a builtin union method.

q = q1.union(q2) #q will contain all unique records of q1 + q2
q = q1.union(q2, all=True) #q will contain all records of q1 + q2 including duplicates
q = q1.union(q2,q3) # more than 2 queryset union

See my blog post on this for more examples.