title: Django - how do I select a particular column from a model?
body: <p>I had a sniff around SO and couldn't find this, but I am sure it is here somewhere. Apologies for this potential double post!</p>
  
  <p>If I have this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>return Story.objects.filter(user=request.user.id).order_by('-create_date')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and say Story has, um, a "description" field, and I <em>just</em> want that description field, no need for the db to send anything else back with my result, how do I limit the query to <em>just</em> that?</p>
  
  <p>That is, how do I generate this SQL:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select description from story where user_id = x order by create_date desc
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(where x is the request.user.id value, of course)</p>