Django GenericRelated field conditional Query raising 'GenericRelation' object has no attribute 'field'

I have an event object, there are other objects besides Notes that have a generic relation to Event, and which don't have an active field. Now I want to be able to write a query which excludes all Events where the active field of the Notes is False. So I tried doing the following.

queryset = Event.objects.all()
filters = (
        Q(content_type__model='notes') &
        Q(note__active=False)
    )
queryset = queryset.exclude(filters)

This didn't work because it's running the query separately, and when it tries to execute for items for which there are no content_object or which are not of type Notes, it fails and gives the following error:

AttributeError 'GenericRelation' object has no attribute 'field'.

class Event(models.Model):
    content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, null=True, blank=True)
    object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
    content_object = GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')

class Notes(models.Model):
    active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    event_log = GenericRelation(
        'Event',
        related_query_name='note'
    )

Solution

The usual way to do that using the Django ORM is with a subquery:

Event.objects.exclude(
    content_type=note_content_type,
    object_id__in=Notes.objects.filter(active=False),
)

The sad thing is that this can be expressed in SQL with a join instead of a subquery, but the ORM doesn't make that easy.

In some cases PostgreSQL's query planner can optimize the subquery into a hash semi join, so don't dismiss the subquery in preference to raw SQL without benchmarking on the data.