turn off SQL logging while keeping settings.DEBUG?

Question

Django logs SQL operations to an internal buffer (whether logging to file or not) when settings.DEBUG=True. Because I have long-running process that does a lot of DB operat

Answer 1

This worked for me (at least for Django 1.3.1):

from django.db import connection
connection.use_debug_cursor = False

I've found that variable inspecting Django source code (it is not documented), the relevant lines are found in django/db/backends/__init__.py (BaseDatabaseWrapper class):

def cursor(self):
    if (self.use_debug_cursor or
        (self.use_debug_cursor is None and settings.DEBUG)):
        cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor())
    else:
        cursor = util.CursorWrapper(self._cursor(), self)
    return cursor