from typing import TypeVar from django.db import models from django.db.models import QuerySet ModelT = TypeVar("ModelT", bound=models.Model) RowT = TypeVar("RowT") def query_for_ids( query: QuerySet[ModelT, RowT], user_ids: list[int], field: str, ) -> QuerySet[ModelT, RowT]: """ This function optimizes searches of the form `user_profile_id in (1, 2, 3, 4)` by quickly building the where clauses. Profiling shows significant speedups over the normal Django-based approach. Use this very carefully! Also, the caller should guard against empty lists of user_ids. """ assert user_ids clause = f"{field} IN %s" query = query.extra( # noqa: S610 where=[clause], params=(tuple(user_ids),), ) return query