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25th July 2020 - Link Blog

PostgreSQL full-text search in the Django Admin. Today I figured out how to use PostgreSQL full-text search in the Django admin for my blog, using the get_search_results method on a subclass of ModelAdmin.

Posted 25th July 2020 at 11:05 pm

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