Creating Partial Indexes with Django 1.7
Django 2.2 and later
As of version 2.2 Django supports declarative partial unique indexes on databases that support them (PostgreSQL and SQLite). So you could do something like:
from django.db.models import Model, Q, UniqueConstraint
class Post(Model):
...
class Meta:
constraints = [
UniqueConstraint(
fields=["title", "blog", "category"],
name="idx1",
condition=Q(category__isnull=False)),
UniqueConstraint(
fields=["title", "blog"],
name="idx2",
condition=Q(category__isnull=True)),
]
Django 2.1 and earlier
In older versions you need to do this with migrations. First create a new, empty migration file:
python manage.py makemigrations --empty yourappname
Then, for each index add an appropriate RunSQL
line:
operations = [
migrations.RunSQL("CREATE UNIQUE INDEX..."),
migrations.RunSQL("CREATE UNIQUE INDEX..."),
]
Finally, run migrate
.