Tutorial by Examples

First, we'll need to do some setup to get HStoreField working. make sure django.contrib.postgres is in your `INSTALLED_APPS Add HStoreExtension to your migrations. Remember to put HStoreExtension before any CreateModel or AddField migrations. from django.contrib.postgres.operations import HSt...

-> Note: make sure you set up HStoreField first before going on with this example. (above) No parameters are required for initializing a HStoreField. from django.contrib.postgres.fields import HStoreField from django.db import models class Catalog(models.model): name = models.C...

Pass a native python dictionary mapping strings to strings to create(). Catalog.objects.create(name='Library of Congress', titles_to_authors={ 'Using HStoreField with Django': 'CrazyPython and la communidad', 'Flabbergeists and thingamajigs': 'La Artista Fooista', 'Pro Git': 'Scott C...

Catalog.objects.filter(titles__Pro_Git='Scott Chacon and Ben Straub')

Pass a dict object to field_name__contains as a keyword argument. Catalog.objects.filter(titles__contains={ 'Pro Git': 'Scott Chacon and Ben Straub'}) Equivalent to the SQL operator `@>`.