How to disable Django query cache?

Question

In my Django application, I repeatedly run the same query on my database (e.g. every 10 seconds). I then create an MD5 sum over the queryset I receive and compare that to th

Answer 1

I met this problem on django version 1.8. There is not direct way to do it, but there are some ways to make the queryset re-evaluated and executed by accessing db instead of cache. I found it in Django Queryset Documentation

I used one of them to handle my problem. It is exists() function of querysets. len() and repr() can also be used. They worked for me too.

Example

queryset = ModelClass.objects.filter(....)
queryset.exists()

#or len(queryset)
#or repr(queryset)

#Now queryset is re-evaluated.