from django.db.backends.mysql.creation import DatabaseCreation class MySQLCreation(DatabaseCreation): def sql_indexes_for_field(self, model, f, style): from django.contrib.gis.db.models.fields import GeometryField output = super(MySQLCreation, self).sql_indexes_for_field(model, f, style) if isinstance(f, GeometryField) and f.spatial_index: qn = self.connection.ops.quote_name db_table = model._meta.db_table idx_name = '%s_%s_id' % (db_table, f.column) output.append(style.SQL_KEYWORD('CREATE SPATIAL INDEX ') + style.SQL_TABLE(qn(idx_name)) + style.SQL_KEYWORD(' ON ') + style.SQL_TABLE(qn(db_table)) + '(' + style.SQL_FIELD(qn(f.column)) + ');') return output