Trying to get distinct values when model has a default sort order only ends in tears

[Forest Bond]

This used to do what I'd expect:

PbxRecord.objects.values('extension').distinct()

But now it returns way too many values, because it generates this query:

SELECT DISTINCT `datastore_pbxrecord`.`extension`, `datastore_pbxrecord`.`id` FROM `datastore_pbxrecord` ORDER BY `datastore_pbxrecord`.`id` ASC

This is because the default ordering on the model is by id. I assume this broke with the merge of queryset refactor, although I don't know that for sure. I'm currently running on 1.0 beta 2.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This is intended behaviour and required to generate correct SQL. See ​the documentation for an explanation (that was originally included in the queryset-refactor merge, was lost in the docs refactor and re-added after beta-2 and before 1.0-final).

If you don't want the default ordering, call order_by() explicitly to remove it.