If Django is facing Database Timeouts frequently.

CustomCursorWrapper.py

"""
TO OVERRIDE DJANGO's CursorWrapper which causes to use dead connections.

Use case: Deployed Pgbouncer and if its terminating your connections and django thinks it's still alive. 
On attempt to access db django's psycopg driver raises DatabaseError.

WARNING: Have tested only on postgres. Didn't test the effect of this on rollbacks and edge cases.
"""

from django.db.backends.utils import CursorWrapper


class CustomCursorWrapper(CursorWrapper):

    def execute(self, sql, params=None):
        self.db.validate_no_broken_transaction()
        if not self.db.is_usable():
            self.db.close()
            self.db.ensure_connection()
            self.cursor = self.db.cursor()
        with self.db.wrap_database_errors:
            if params is None:
                return self.cursor.execute(sql)
            else:
                return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)