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Marc Tamlyn 2d877da855 Refs #3254 -- Added full text search to contrib.postgres.
Adds a reasonably feature complete implementation of full text search
using the built in PostgreSQL engine. It uses public APIs from
Expression and Lookup.

With thanks to Tim Graham, Simon Charettes, Josh Smeaton, Mikey Ariel
and many others for their advice and review. Particular thanks also go
to the supporters of the contrib.postgres kickstarter.
2016-04-22 10:44:37 +01:00

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===========================
``django.contrib.postgres``
===========================
.. module:: django.contrib.postgres
:synopsis: PostgreSQL-specific fields and features
PostgreSQL has a number of features which are not shared by the other databases
Django supports. This optional module contains model fields and form fields for
a number of PostgreSQL specific data types.
Psycopg2 2.5 or higher is required, though we highly recommend using the latest
release. Some fields require higher versions.
.. note::
Django is, and will continue to be, a database-agnostic web framework. We
would encourage those writing reusable applications for the Django
community to write database-agnostic code where practical. However, we
recognize that real world projects written using Django need not be
database-agnostic. In fact, once a project reaches a given size changing
the underlying data store is already a significant challenge and is likely
to require changing the code base in some ways to handle differences
between the data stores.
Django provides support for a number of data types which will
only work with PostgreSQL. There is no fundamental reason why (for example)
a ``contrib.mysql`` module does not exist, except that PostgreSQL has the
richest feature set of the supported databases so its users have the most
to gain.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
aggregates
fields
forms
functions
lookups
operations
search
validators