Django haystack EdgeNgramField given different results than elasticsearch

Question

I\'m currently running haystack with an elasticsearch backend, and now I\'m building an autocomplete for cities names. The problem is that SearchQuerySet is giving me different

Answer 1

Well, I had a similar problem and my strategy was make a custom backend.

The complete instructions can be found on:

http://www.wellfireinteractive.com/blog/custom-haystack-elasticsearch-backend/

It works to me !

Hope this helps.