Question

Given the following model, I want to index the fields (sequence,stock)

class QuoteModel(models.Model):  
    quotedate =  models.DateField()  
    high = models.FloatField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    low  = models.FloatField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    close  = models.FloatField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    closeadj  = models.FloatField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    volume  = models.IntegerField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    stock  = models.IntegerField(db_index=True) #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    open  = models.FloatField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  
    sequence = models.IntegerField() #(9,2) DEFAULT NULL,  

This index should be non-unique – in mysql it should be something like:

create index ndx_1 on model_quotemodel(sequence,stock);

The only Django workaround I know of is creating an “sql” file that will be executed by django upon table creation. So, I created a “stockmodel.sql” containing the following query (same as above:)

create index ndx_1 on model_quotemodel(sequence,stock);

Is there any “cleaner” way of doing it?

Answer 1

As of Django 1.5, you can use the Meta.index_together option:

class QuoteModel(models.Model):
    # ... fields ...

    class Meta:
        index_together = [
            ("sequence", "stock"),
        ]

(note: the original answer from 2009 said it was not possible to index multiple fields; it has since been replaced)