> >> Hello, > >> is it possible to change somewhere the connection timeout to a > >> MySQL server on the client side? > >> Or could it be possible to implement a keep-alive? > >> Everytime the connection is lost, I need to restart gnucash. > > > > I don't think that it's possible from the client. IIUC (and I'm not > > a MySQL expert, but if you're using it you should be or you should > > hire one) it's a server-side parameter called wait_timeout. > > > > No, we're not going to add a keep-alive. > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23399111/safely-keeping-mysql-connections-alive > > says that a connection pool is the right way to handle this, but > > the database abstraction library we use doesn't support that so > > it's not going to get added any time soon. > > However if GnuCash fails in a non-recoverable way when you lose the > connection I would have thought that would be a bug. What exact > symptom are you seeing? > > Colin
I am wondering, if no keep-alive is going to be implemented, if a connection loss could be catched and connect again.. the error message is: "Unable to save to database." regards, paul _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
