startproject should create a 'cron job' and 'archive' binary for sessions

[Ian@…]

as part of the 'core' application it creates a session table, which creates a record for every 'session' (visitor) who has looked at your site.
obviously this will grow to be quite large on popular sites.

I propose that django-admin startproject creates a archive script which can fire an event to 'archive' which applications can register interest in. (and this could be put into a crontab or whatever to be run regularly)

[ian@…]

2nd approach to it ;-) thanks hugo.

hugo-: there is one in the bin/ directory, but that one talks about the sessions and the registration challenges - but the latter one are only in ellington, not Django

hugo-: it could be useful to extend that one to use some kind of hooks into the model classes - if those provide a "make_clean" function, that one is called in the daily cleanup

[ludvig.ericson@…]

I think the approach should be more to the PHP way; a GC trigger chance that deletes old sessions based on cookie start-TTL.

[cephelo@…]

Set up source:django/trunk/django/bin/daily_cleanup.py on a cron that runs at whatever interval you'd like. Random "GC" like PHP has makes it more difficult to debug, whereas a cron is entirely predictable.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

These sorts of activities vary a bit based on each project. I think this is outside the scope of django-admin.py, since it's easy enough to do anyway.