Django SearchVector using icontains
So SearchQuery and SearchVector are a part of Django's Full Text searching functionality and it doesnt look like you can achieve what I was wanting to do with these functions. I have taken a different approach thanks to Julian Phalip's approach here.. https://www.julienphalip.com/blog/adding-search-to-a-django-site-in-a-snap/
You can apply icontains
to the filter like:
queryset = queryset.annotate(search=vector).filter(search__icontains=query)