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

you can try this

class Foo(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_select_related = (
        'foreign_key1',
        'foreign_key2',
    )

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_select_related