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

1. Django 1.6 or Above

   python manage.py clearsessions
   

2. Django 1.5 or lower

   python manage.py cleanup
   

3. From Django Shell

   from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
   Session.objects.all().delete()
   

4. django-session-cleanup cornJob

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).