Django south migration - Adding FULLTEXT indexes

Question

I need to add a FULLTEXT index to one of my Django model\'s fields and understand that there is no built in functionality to do this and that such an index must be added manuall

Answer 1

In newer versions of Django, you can create an empty migration for execute custom sql: python3 manage.py makemigrations --empty app_name

Then, in the generated migration:

from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    operations = [
        migrations.RunSQL(
            sql="CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX `index_name` on table_name(`column_name`);",
            reverse_sql="ALTER TABLE table_name DROP INDEX index_name"
        )
    ]