On 8/15/06, Andy Dustman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, it does LIKE %string%, which is quite expensive. Usually want > I want out of an admin search is a startswith match, i.e. LIKE > string%, which can use an index. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to > be a way to do this yet. Maybe something like this: > > class Admin: > > search_fields = ["^last_name", "^first_name", "summary"] > > where a field name starting with ^ means to match the beginning. Looks > like this could be done with a couple lines in > django.contrib.admin.views.main.ChangeList.get_query_set()
That's a really nice idea, Andy! We would most certainly add that in, if you wrote a patch. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
