Django reverse to contains/icontains

Question

In this question was solved problem for reverse LIKE operation in SQL, for example if field name is \"Peter Johnson\", we could find it by such query:

Answer 1

If you are on the latest version of Django (1.10 or later) and using Postgres the ORM can handle this. Check out the docs.

A trigram_similar lookup will get you what you are looking for:

qs = MyModel.objects.filter(name__trigram_similar='Mr. Peter Johnson')

Don't forget to enable this lookup by enabling the pg_tgrm extension. You can do that with a django migration.

And you will need to add 'django.contrib.postgres' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.