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Database migration operations
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All of these :doc:`operations </ref/migration-operations>` are available from
the ``django.contrib.postgres.operations`` module.

.. _create-postgresql-extensions:

Creating extension using migrations
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You can create a PostgreSQL extension in your database using a migration file.
This example creates an hstore extension, but the same principles apply for
other extensions.

Set up the hstore extension in PostgreSQL before the first ``CreateModel``
or ``AddField`` operation that involves
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.HStoreField` by adding a migration with
the :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.operations.HStoreExtension` operation.
For example::

    from django.contrib.postgres.operations import HStoreExtension

    class Migration(migrations.Migration):
        ...

        operations = [
            HStoreExtension(),
            ...
        ]

Creating the extension requires a database user with superuser privileges.
If the Django database user doesn't have superuser privileges, you'll have
to create the extension outside of Django migrations with a user that has
the appropriate privileges. In that case, connect to your Django database and
run the query ``CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;``.

.. currentmodule:: django.contrib.postgres.operations

``CreateExtension``
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.. class:: CreateExtension(name)

    An ``Operation`` subclass which installs PostgreSQL extensions.

    .. attribute:: name

        This is a required argument. The name of the extension to be installed.

``BtreeGinExtension``
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.. class:: BtreeGinExtension()

    .. versionadded:: 1.11

    Install the ``btree_gin`` extension.

``CITextExtension``
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.. class:: CITextExtension()

    .. versionadded:: 1.11

    Installs the ``citext`` extension.

``CryptoExtension``
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.. class:: CryptoExtension()

    .. versionadded:: 2.0

    Installs the ``pgcrypto`` extension.

``HStoreExtension``
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.. class:: HStoreExtension()

    Installs the ``hstore`` extension and also sets up the connection to
    interpret hstore data for possible use in subsequent migrations.

``TrigramExtension``
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.. class:: TrigramExtension()

    Installs the ``pg_trgm`` extension.

``UnaccentExtension``
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.. class:: UnaccentExtension()

    Installs the ``unaccent`` extension.