Here is my simplified model:

class Item(models.Model):
    pass

class TrackingPoint(models.Model):
    item = models.ForeignKey(Item)
    created = models.DateField()
    data = models.IntegerField()

In many parts of my application I need to retrieve a set of Item's and annotate each item with data field from latest TrackingPoint from each item ordered by created field. For example, instance i1 of class Item has 3 TrackingPoint's:

tp1 = TrackingPoint(item=i1, created=date(2010,5,15), data=23)
tp2 = TrackingPoint(item=i1, created=date(2010,5,14), data=21)
tp3 = TrackingPoint(item=i1, created=date(2010,5,12), data=120)

I need a query to retrieve i1 instance annotated with tp1.data field value as tp1 is the latest tracking point ordered by created field. That query should also return Item's that don't have any TrackingPoint's at all. If possible I prefer not to use QuerySet's extra method to do this.

That's what I tried so far... and failed :(

Item.objects.annotate(max_created=Max('trackingpoint__created'),
                      data=Avg('trackingpoint__data')).filter(trackingpoint__created=F('max_created'))

Any ideas?