How to create GIN index in Django migration

In your models.py file import

from django.contrib.postgres.indexes import GinIndex

In class Meta create your index by your model field -

    class Meta:
        indexes = [
            GinIndex(name='NewGinIndex',fields=['title','keywords','shortDescription','details'])
        ]

Then run python manage.py makemigrations and when you run python manage.py migrate you will get an error like this -

data type character varying has no default operator class for access method "gin"
HINT: You must specify an operator class for the index or define a default operator class for the data type.

Then go to your app -> migrations -> _modelName_giniIndexname.py file

Then in <number>_modelName_giniIndexname.py file import

from django.contrib.postgres.operations import BtreeGinExtension

And also in operations list add -

BtreeGinExtension(),

Then you can run migrate. Probably you will get another error some kind of super user issue. To resolve this issue
Login psql by current user via -

sudo -u postgres psql

then ->

postgres-# alter role <user_name> superuser;

this user should be in your database config user profile -

then ->

postgres-# CREATE EXTENSION btree_gin;

If you want alter super user permission by after login with current user in psql -

postgres-# alter role <user_name> nosuperuser;

exit from database by -

\q 

then python manage.py migrate

Thank you...

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