refrain from creating the index as part of the migrations, messes with the test cases.

docs/setup.rst

@@ -265,15 +265,17 @@ Migration to paperless-ng is then performed in a few simple steps:
     ``docker-compose.env`` to your needs.
     See `docker route`_ for details on which edits are advised.
 
-6.  Start paperless-ng.
+6.  In order to find your existing documents with the new search feature, you need
+    to invoke a one-time operation that will create the search index:
 
-    .. code:: bash
+    .. code:: shell-session
 
-        $ docker-compose up
+        $ docker-compose run --rm webserver document_index reindex
+    
+    This will migrate your database and create the search index. After that,
+    paperless will take care of maintaining the index by itself.
 
-    If you see everything working (you should see some migrations getting
-    applied, for instance), you can gracefully stop paperless-ng with Ctrl-C
-    and then start paperless-ng as usual with
+7.  Start paperless-ng.
 
     .. code:: bash
 
@@ -281,11 +283,11 @@ Migration to paperless-ng is then performed in a few simple steps:
 
     This will run paperless in the background and automatically start it on system boot.
 
-7.  Paperless installed a permanent redirect to ``admin/`` in your browser. This
+8.  Paperless installed a permanent redirect to ``admin/`` in your browser. This
     redirect is still in place and prevents access to the new UI. Clear
     browsing cache in order to fix this.
 
-8.  Optionally, follow the instructions below to migrate your existing data to PostgreSQL.
+9.  Optionally, follow the instructions below to migrate your existing data to PostgreSQL.
 
 
 .. _setup-sqlite_to_psql:

src/documents/migrations/1000_update_paperless_all.py

@@ -5,23 +5,6 @@ from django.db import migrations, models
 import django.db.models.deletion
 
 
-def make_index(apps, schema_editor):
-    Document = apps.get_model("documents", "Document")
-    documents = Document.objects.all()
-    print()
-    try:
-        print("  --> Creating document index...")
-        from whoosh.writing import AsyncWriter
-        from documents import index
-        ix = index.open_index(recreate=True)
-        with AsyncWriter(ix) as writer:
-            for document in documents:
-                index.update_document(writer, document)
-    except ImportError:
-        # index may not be relevant anymore
-        print("  --> Cannot create document index.")
-
-
 def logs_set_default_group(apps, schema_editor):
     Log = apps.get_model('documents', 'Log')
     for log in Log.objects.all():
@@ -99,8 +82,4 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
             code=django.db.migrations.operations.special.RunPython.noop,
             reverse_code=logs_set_default_group
         ),
-        migrations.RunPython(
-            code=make_index,
-            reverse_code=django.db.migrations.operations.special.RunPython.noop,
-        ),
     ]