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

If still interested in tracing SQL operations for debugging purposes, you can also clean connection.queries list periodically to reclaim memory:

from django.db import connection

for i in range(start, count, size):
    objects = MyModel.objects.order_by('pk').all()[i:i + size]
    ...
    print connection.queries
    connection.queries = []