Creating a Gin Index with Trigram (gin_trgm_ops) in Django model

Question

The new TrigramSimilarity feature of the django.contrib.postgres was great for a problem I had. I use it for a search bar to find hard to spell latin names. The problem is that

Answer 1

I found a 12/2020 article that uses the newest version of Django ORM as such:

class Author(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

    class Meta:
        indexes = [
            GinIndex(
                name='review_author_ln_gin_idx', 
                fields=['last_name'], 
                opclasses=['gin_trgm_ops'],
            )
        ]

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Inspired from an old article on this subject, I landed to a current one which gives the following solution for a GistIndex:

Update: From Django-1.11 things seem to be simpler, as this answer and django docs sugest:

from django.contrib.postgres.indexes import GinIndex

class MyModel(models.Model):
    the_field = models.CharField(max_length=512, db_index=True)

    class Meta:
        indexes = [GinIndex(fields=['the_field'])]

From Django-2.2, an attribute opclasses will be available in class Index(fields=(), name=None, db_tablespace=None, opclasses=()) for this purpose.

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from django.contrib.postgres.indexes import GistIndex

class GistIndexTrgrmOps(GistIndex):
    def create_sql(self, model, schema_editor):
        # - this Statement is instantiated by the _create_index_sql()
        #   method of django.db.backends.base.schema.BaseDatabaseSchemaEditor.
        #   using sql_create_index template from
        #   django.db.backends.postgresql.schema.DatabaseSchemaEditor
        # - the template has original value:
        #   "CREATE INDEX %(name)s ON %(table)s%(using)s (%(columns)s)%(extra)s"
        statement = super().create_sql(model, schema_editor)
        # - however, we want to use a GIST index to accelerate trigram
        #   matching, so we want to add the gist_trgm_ops index operator
        #   class
        # - so we replace the template with:
        #   "CREATE INDEX %(name)s ON %(table)s%(using)s (%(columns)s gist_trgrm_ops)%(extra)s"
        statement.template =\
            "CREATE INDEX %(name)s ON %(table)s%(using)s (%(columns)s gist_trgm_ops)%(extra)s"

        return statement

Which you can then use in your model class like this:

class YourModel(models.Model):
    some_field = models.TextField(...)

    class Meta:
        indexes = [
            GistIndexTrgrmOps(fields=['some_field'])
        ]