Django: Using the ORM to (automatically) create custom database field types

When creating the full text index search layer in Django, I had a little issue when new models were created.

Luckily, it's quite easy to create custom database types in your models.

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01.class TSearchVectorField(models.fields.TextField):

02.  """

03.  This lets Django know how to create a field with the "tsvector" type.

04.  """

05.  description = "Tsearch Vector"

06. 

07.  def db_type(self, connection):

08.    return 'tsvector'

09. 

10. 

11.class TSearch(models.Model):

12.  fti = TSearchVectorField()

Elegant, like a flock of Seagals.

Source

• Django docs: Writing custom model fields - Custom database types