analysis_meta = Table('analysis_meta', metadata, Column('meta_id', Integer, primary_key=True), Column('analysis_id', Integer, ForeignKey('analysis_data.id'), nullable=False), Column('start_time', DateTime, nullable=False), Column('rank', Integer), Column('created', DateTime, default=func.now()), ) analysis_data = Table('analysis_data', metadata, Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True), Column('topic', Unicode(256), nullable=False), Column('content', Unicode, nullable=False), Column('created', DateTime, default=func.now()), Column('updated', DateTime, default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now()), ) class AnalysisMeta(object): def __init__(self, start_time, end_time, ticker_id, rank=1): self.start_time = start_time self.ticker_id = ticker_id self.rank = rank class Analysis(object): def __init__(self, topic, content): self.topic = topic self.content = content mapper(AnalysisMeta, analysis_meta) mapper(Analysis, analysis_data, properties={'meta': relation(AnalysisMeta)}) From shell: In [23]: s = create_session() In [24]: q = s.query(Analysis) In [25]: l = q.options(lazyload('content')) In [26]: l.selectfirst() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- exceptions.AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/ryalaman/stuff/daFinci/ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py in selectfirst(self, *args, **params) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py in select_whereclause(self, whereclause, params, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py in compile(self, whereclause, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/interfaces.py in setup(self, querycontext, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/interfaces.py in _get_context_strategy(self, context) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/interfaces.py in _get_strategy(self, cls) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/strategies.py in init(self) /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.3.4-py2.4.egg/sqlalchemy/orm/strategies.py in init(self) AttributeError: 'ColumnProperty' object has no attribute 'primaryjoin'