how can I use PostgreSQL's "text" column type in Django?

Question

Can I have in Django's model a column of PostgreSQL's "text" type? If so, how can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use the TextField

A large text field. The default form widget for this field is a Textarea.

Usage:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    text_field = models.TextField("My field label", null=True, blank=True)

If the text is not too long, You could also consider CharField

A string field, for small- to large-sized strings. For large amounts of text, use TextField.

The default form widget for this field is a TextInput.

Usage:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    text_field = models.CharField("My field label", max_length=1024, null=True, blank=True)