11th December 2023 - Link Blog
Database generated columns: GeoDjango & PostGIS. Paolo Melchiorre advocated for the inclusion of generated columns, one of the biggest features in Django 5.0. Here he provides a detailed tutorial showing how they can be used with PostGIS to create database tables that offer columns such as geohash that are automatically calculated from other columns in the table.
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