Django - OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

Question

Bottom line first: How do you refresh the MySQL connection in django?

Following a MySQL server has gone away error I found that MySQL docum

Answer 1

Since Django 1.6, you can use

import django.db

django.db.close_old_connections()

This does basically the same thing as adamsmith's answer except that it handles multiple databases and also honors the CONN_MAX_AGE setting. Django calls close_old_connections() automatically before and after each request, so you normally don't have to worry about it unless you have some long-running code outside of the normal request/response cycle.