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 # GaiaDBInterface
 A Django application for interacting with Gaia DR3 via ORM interface.
 
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+## manage.py commands:
+- `ingester` - ingests a directory of csv files into the database. Beware memory leaks.
+- `indexer` - indexes the catalog in the database using healpix.
+- `indexer-multithread` -  a multithreaded version of indexer.
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