Yes, but also it's been a long time since I've had any reason to do this, and had gotten "managed = False" mixed up with abstract classes. Abstract classes won

Yes, but also it's been a long time since I've had any reason to do this, and had gotten "managed = False" mixed up with abstract classes. Abstract classes won't let you do this, but you probably want "managed = False" to prevent migrations from doing stuff in the database, if it's going to be a reporting-only query that doesn't have a backing table. Also you need to return an "id" column since Django needs a primary key. On the flipside, you can put that query in the database as a VIEW and point the model at it, also with "managed = False".