Common Table Expressions with Django

Installation

pip install django-cte

Documentation

The django-cte documentation shows how to use Common Table Expressions with the Django ORM.

Running tests

cd django-cte
uv sync

pytest
ruff check

# To run tests against postgres
psql -U username -h localhost -p 5432 -c 'create database django_cte;'
export PG_DB_SETTINGS='{
    "ENGINE":"django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2",
    "NAME":"django_cte",
    "USER":"username",
    "PASSWORD":"password",
    "HOST":"localhost",
    "PORT":"5432"}'

# WARNING pytest will delete the test_django_cte database if it exists!
DB_SETTINGS="$PG_DB_SETTINGS" pytest

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