Session database table cleanup
Django does NOT provide automatic purging. There is however a handy command available to help you do it manually: Django docs: Clearing the session store
python manage.py clearsessions
- Django 1.6 or Above
python manage.py clearsessions - Django 1.5 or lower
python manage.py cleanup - From Django Shell
from django.contrib.sessions.models import SessionSession.objects.all().delete() - django-session-cleanupcornJob
On my development server, I prefer a database command over python manage.py clearsessions because you delete all sessions, not just the expired ones (here: MySQL). To login into your database and do:
truncate table django_session;BTW, session is not a database, but a table (django_session) and an app (django.contrib.sessions).