# Django 6.0.2 documentation

# PostgreSQL specific query expressions

These expressions are available from the `django.contrib.postgres.expressions` module.

## `ArraySubquery()` expressions

class ArraySubquery(queryset)

`ArraySubquery` is a `Subquery` that uses the PostgreSQL `ARRAY` constructor to build a list of values from the queryset, which must use `QuerySet.values()` to return only a single column.

This class differs from `ArrayAgg` in the way that it does not act as an aggregate function and does not require an SQL `GROUP BY` clause to build the list of values.

For example, if you want to annotate all related books to an author as JSON objects:

    >>> from django.db.models import OuterRef
    >>> from django.db.models.functions import JSONObject
    >>> from django.contrib.postgres.expressions import ArraySubquery
    >>> books = Book.objects.filter(author=OuterRef("pk")).values(
    ...     json=JSONObject(title="title", pages="pages")
    ... )
    >>> author = Author.objects.annotate(books=ArraySubquery(books)).first()
    >>> author.books
    [{'title': 'Solaris', 'pages': 204}, {'title': 'The Cyberiad', 'pages': 295}]