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84a04301d1 Fix: tag/custom-field document_count scales badly with tag count (#13203)
* Fix (beta): tag/custom-field document_count scales badly with tag count

TagViewSet and CustomFieldViewSet's document_count annotation used a
per-row correlated subquery (annotate_document_count_for_related_queryset),
executed once per tag/custom-field row. Fine at a few dozen rows, but at
~1,000 tags it degrades to a full per-tag GroupAggregate over the tags M2M
table -- 6s+ in production reports, confirmed via EXPLAIN (loops=1000).

Replaced with a single, independent GROUP BY over the through table
(permission filter expressed as a plain WHERE, not an aggregate FILTER),
then injected via Case/When. Also tried a more "obvious" fix -- a plain
Count(filter=Q(id__in=permitted_ids), distinct=True) directly on the M2M
relation -- but that's worse: Postgres fails to plan the id__in check as a
semi-join once a large M2M bridge table is involved, and instead re-checks
subquery membership once per joined row.

Benchmarked against a synthetic corpus (400k documents, 1,000 tags @ ~5/doc,
matching real-world reports in discussion #13161): tag list wall-clock drops
from ~180s to ~8s for a permission-restricted user, ~21s to ~8s for a
superuser. No measurable change at typical home-instance scale (tens of
tags).

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Address review feedback: restore validation, scope aggregation to queryset

- Restore the document_count_source_field validation helper dropped during
  the refactor -- misconfiguring a viewset (document_count_through set
  without document_count_source_field) now fails fast with a clear error
  again instead of an obscure runtime failure.
- Restrict annotate_document_count_for_related_queryset()'s through-table
  aggregation to rows whose related_object_field is one of the annotated
  queryset's pks. No-op for the main tag-list call site (queryset is all
  tags), but avoids unnecessary work for narrower callers like the tag
  descendants branch in TagViewSet.list().

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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