Efficiently querying extra fields on Django ManyToMany Through?

Your mistake #1 is trying to use Edge as a ManyToMany connection table to itself. If you use via parameter, it has to be a 3rd table. It's impossible in relation algebra to do m2m via one of the two tables.

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