Question

In a legacy MySQL database I have a table with a field that is a comma-separated list of values:

id  | field
---------------
1   | 2,4,8
2   | 1,4,15,24

What is the Django equivalent of the following query?

SELECT * FROM `table_name` WHERE FIND_IN_SET(15, field)

Assume Django sees this field as a regular CharField.

Answer 1

For stuff that’s that custom i think you may be stuck with extra()

Example:

# Warning, MySQL specific query ahead!
Model.objects.extra(where=['FIND_IN_SET(15, field)'])