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Thursday, April 14, 2022

[FIXED] How to create GIN index in Django migration

 April 14, 2022     django, django-migrations, indexing, migration, postgresql     No comments   

Issue

In Django, since version 1.11 we have a class for PostgreSQL GinIndex (rel="noreferrer">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/postgres/indexes/). I'd like to create a migration that constructs such index on a VectorSearchField I added to one of my tables. So far, I've tried to simply add db_index=True to the VectorSearchField, but that fails, because it tries to create a B-Tree index (I think) and the VectorSearchField values are too long.

I managed to create the index I want by running a migrations.RunSQL() migration with:

CREATE INDEX entryline_sv_index ON entryline USING GIN (sv);

However, I guess, since there is a special GinIndex class in Django, maybe there is a way to create such index without executing raw SQL?

Here's a model class:

import django.contrib.postgres.search as pg_search

class EntryLine(models.Model):
    speaker = models.CharField(max_length=512, db_index=True)
    text = models.TextField()
    sv = pg_search.SearchVectorField(null=True)  # I want a GIN index on this field.

Any idea how to properly create an index for sv field in a migration? Or is executing the CREATE INDEX ... query the best way?


Solution

Haven't yet had a chance to migrate my old manual CREATE INDEX codes to the new system introduced in 1.11 but my understanding is

from django.contrib.postgres.indexes import GinIndex
import django.contrib.postgres.search as pg_search
    
class EntryLine(models.Model):
    speaker = models.CharField(max_length=512, db_index=True)
    text = models.TextField()
    sv = pg_search.SearchVectorField(null=True) 
    class Meta:
        indexes = [GinIndex(fields=['sv'])]

Is what's required. Raw SQL CREATE INDEX statements need not be used any more.



Answered By - e4c5
Answer Checked By - Clifford M. (PHPFixing Volunteer)
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