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Go beyond CRUD with the Postgres features Django hides: table partitioning, materialized views, window functions, LISTEN/NOTIFY, recursive CTEs, advanced constraints, JSONB/arrays, and safe migrations — with guidance on when to push logic into the database.
When Postgres full-text search isn't enough: integrating Elasticsearch/OpenSearch with Django — modelling documents, keeping the index in sync, tuning relevance with boosts and fuzziness, facets, and zero-downtime reindexing with aliases.
When one PostgreSQL box stops keeping up, scale reads horizontally. Add streaming replicas, route reads with a Django database router, pool connections through PgBouncer, and handle replication lag without serving stale data.
How to ship schema changes without locking your production database. NOT NULL adds, column renames, index creation, and the multi-deploy patterns that separate Django teams who break prod from those who don't.
Push your Django app beyond basic queries. Master B-tree vs GIN indexes, JSONB for semi-structured data, full-text search with ranking, and window functions for analytics.
Compare PostgreSQL and SQLite for Django projects. Learn when to use each, how to switch, and best practices for production databases.
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