Thank you for the review.

There isn't currently a way to control the number of retries.  If that
is a valuable feature, then it could be added.

You can control the timeout for these utilities with the --timeout
option (or use the "timeout" program from GNU coreutils).

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:17:09PM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote:
> Makes sense. Is there any way to control the number of retries, and the
> retry time?
> 
> Acked-by: Miguel Angel Ajo <[email protected]>
> 
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Most of the OVS database-manipulation utilities (ovn-sbctl, ovn-nbctl,
> > ovs-vsctl, vtep-ctl) don't retry their connections by default because
> > they assume that the database is either up or down and likely to stay
> > that way.  The OVN southbound database, however, is a likely candidate
> > for high availability clustering, so that even if it appears to be
> > down for a moment it will be available again soon.  So, prepare for
> > the clustering implementation by enabling retry by default in
> > ovn-sbctl.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  ovn/utilities/ovn-sbctl.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ovn/utilities/ovn-sbctl.c b/ovn/utilities/ovn-sbctl.c
> > index 7af5863b08fc..f4452fa6ee85 100644
> > --- a/ovn/utilities/ovn-sbctl.c
> > +++ b/ovn/utilities/ovn-sbctl.c
> > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> >      }
> >
> >      /* Initialize IDL. */
> > -    idl = the_idl = ovsdb_idl_create(db, &sbrec_idl_class, false, false);
> > +    idl = the_idl = ovsdb_idl_create(db, &sbrec_idl_class, false, true);
> >      run_prerequisites(commands, n_commands, idl);
> >
> >      /* Execute the commands.
> > --
> > 2.10.2
> >
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