Unmanaged Database With Indexing Support

[aetherrealm]

Hello,

I have a specific use-case where I have Django models for a plugin that I need to be accessible from Netbox directly, and I'd like them to be indexed in the global search. These models are pulling from an external Postgres database, and I have a database router setup for the data. These models are unmanaged (no migrations, etc).

When I got to index the models, I'm running into an error like so ProgrammingError: relation "django_content_type" does not exist LINE 1: ..."."app_label", "django_content_type"."model" FROM "django_co...

when a search is performed. I believe this is because the search requires django_content_type to exist, and even though my database router is only allowing the single model I created to be queried against the external database, django_content_type is expected to exist in that database.

Has anyone run into this before?

Why this level of complexity? I do not want to duplicate this data inside of Netbox as native models that are managed by Django. The dataset is very large, and it would be unreasonable to have a copy of it inside of Netbox as well just to make it "easier". The data should be read only anyways, and separate from the constraints provided by netbox_branching.