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@@ -1014,6 +1014,12 @@ of the arguments is required, but you should use at least one of them.
select=SortedDict(('a', '%s'), ('b', '%s')),
select_params=('one', 'two'))
+ The only thing to be careful about when using select parameters in
+ ``extra()`` is to avoid using the substring ``"%%s"`` (that's *two*
+ percent characters before the ``s``) in the select strings. Django's
+ tracking of parameters looks for ``%s`` and an escaped ``%`` character
+ like this isn't detected. That will lead to incorrect results.
+
``where`` / ``tables``
You can define explicit SQL ``WHERE`` clauses -- perhaps to perform
non-explicit joins -- by using ``where``. You can manually add tables to