Django admin performance issue

Question

I\'m getting thousands of these queries when I try to open up a model in the Django admin interface and it\'s leading to a serious performance issue.

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Answer 1

You could make Django use select_related by defining your own ModelAdmin like this

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def queryset(self, request):
        qs = super(MyModelAdmin, self).queryset(request)
        return qs.select_related()