On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:41:39 Adam Johnson wrote: > On 28 January 2017 at 21:45, Vitaliy Kucherivaiy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Do I understand this correctly - now there are 2 ways to make a single > > field indexed in database: > > - FieldClass(db_index=True) > > - Model.Meta.indexes > > > > will it stay like this for future release or 1st approach will be > > deprecated/removed later ? > > > Afaik there is no deprecation plan for *db_index*, and I doubt it would be > since it would require lots of projects to update their models for no > particular gain. Probably best to think of *db_index* as a shortcut for > adding an index to *Meta.indexes*. >
Exactly. This is similar to the situation with Field(unique=True) vs. Meta.unique_together.
