From d3bf5e7b0016edc02e125699c0b0d3aa93404940 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:22:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #24645 -- Documented use of HStoreExtension.

---
 docs/ref/contrib/postgres/fields.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/postgres/fields.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/postgres/fields.txt
index 760286dcac..1a1d228da9 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/postgres/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/postgres/fields.txt
@@ -251,6 +251,12 @@ HStoreField
     A field for storing mappings of strings to strings. The Python data type
     used is a ``dict``.
 
+    To use this field, you'll need to setup the hstore extension in PostgreSQL
+    by adding a migration with the
+    :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.operations.HStoreExtension` operation.
+    You'll see an error like ``'type "hstore" does not exist'`` if you skip
+    this step.
+
 .. note::
 
     On occasions it may be useful to require or restrict the keys which are