How to force Django Admin to use select_related?

Question

One of my models is particularily complex. When I try to edit it in Django Admin it performs 1042 queries and takes over 9 seconds to process.

I know I can replace a

Answer 1

Although dr jimbob's answer makes sense, for my needs, I was able to simply override the get_queryset() method with a one-liner, even selecting a foreign key's foreign key. Maybe this could be helpful to someone.

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    model = MyModel
    ...
    def get_queryset(self, request):
        return super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_queryset(request).select_related(
            'foreign_key1', 'foreign_key2__fk2_foreign_key')