Does Django automatically generate indexes for foreign keys columns?

Question

Does Django automatically generate indexes for foreign keys, or does it just depend on the underlying DB policy ?

Answer 1

Django automatically creates an index for all models.ForeignKey columns.

From Django documentation:

A database index is automatically created on the ForeignKey. You can disable this by setting db_index to False. You may want to avoid the overhead of an index if you are creating a foreign key for consistency rather than joins, or if you will be creating an alternative index like a partial or multiple column index.