Django Haystack update index faster
get_updated_field should return a string that contains the name of the attribute on the model that contains the date that the model was updated (haystack docs). A DateField with auto_now=True would be ideal for that (Django docs).
For example, my UserProfile model has a field named updated
models.py
class UserProfile(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) # lots of other fields snipped updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)search_indexes.py
class UserProfileIndex(SearchIndex): text = CharField(document=True, use_template=True) user = CharField(model_attr='user') user_fullname = CharField(model_attr='user__get_full_name') def get_model(self): return UserProfile def get_updated_field(self): return "updated"Then when I run ./manage.py update_index --age=10 it only indexes the user profiles updated in the last 10 hours.