Solved! Mike Bayer recommended adding a call to engine.dispose() to
tearDownClass and that fixed it. Apparently the garbage collector is
imperfect for disposing of engines.

thanks for the help!

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Vincent Catalano <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It definitely sounds like your connection sessions are not being closed
> properly. Perhaps the way WebTest handles thread locals is interfering with
> the connection pooling? I could be way off on this but are you calling the 
> *pyramid.testing.setUp
> *and *pyramid.testing.tearDown *functions in your *setUp* and *tearDown* 
> functions?
> (http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/
> latest/narr/testing.html#test-set-up-and-tear-down)
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping someone has had a similar issue, 'cause I'm at head banging on
>> desk stage here.
>>
>> I have some functional tests for a pyramid+sqlalchemy app, using webtest,
>> in which I make an engine and make a couple of session that get used in
>> addition to the webtest app. I close the sessions in the tearDown method
>> after each test.
>>
>> Now that the number of functional tests is over about 100, they have
>> started failing, but *only* when I run the whole mess together. Run file by
>> file, they are all fine.
>>
>> The error I'm getting is pasted below. I'm running stock postgres on os x
>> (installed from the universal binary, no special tweaking).
>>
>> I've tried sqlalchemy engine settings, changing pool_size to 20 and
>> max_overflow to -1 but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm
>> wondering if something in webtest is not releasing the connection properly?
>> In the actual app, my db session gets closed in a request end of lifecycle
>> callback. We haven't had this happen running it, but mind you we haven't
>> had heavy loads yet either.
>>
>> Any clues would be lovely!
>>
>> thanks
>> iain
>>
>> traceback:
>>
>> src/warp.test/warp/test/functional.py:70: in setUp
>>     self.init_db()
>> src/warp.test/warp/test/functional.py:51: in init_db
>>     cls.engine.execute("drop owned by alimetrix")
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1990: in
>> execute
>>     connection = self.contextual_connect(close_with_result=True)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:2039: in
>> contextual_connect
>>     self._wrap_pool_connect(self.pool.connect, None),
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:2078: in
>> _wrap_pool_connect
>>     e, dialect, self)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1405: in
>> _handle_dbapi_exception_noconnection
>>     exc_info
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py:202: in
>> raise_from_cause
>>     reraise(type(exception), exception, tb=exc_tb, cause=cause)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:2074: in
>> _wrap_pool_connect
>>     return fn()
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:376: in connect
>>     return _ConnectionFairy._checkout(self)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:713: in _checkout
>>     fairy = _ConnectionRecord.checkout(pool)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:480: in checkout
>>     rec = pool._do_get()
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:1060: in _do_get
>>     self._dec_overflow()
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py:60: in
>> __exit__
>>     compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:1057: in _do_get
>>     return self._create_connection()
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:323: in
>> _create_connection
>>     return _ConnectionRecord(self)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:449: in __init__
>>     self.connection = self.__connect()
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool.py:607: in __connect
>>     connection = self.__pool._invoke_creator(self)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py:97: in
>> connect
>>     return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams)
>> env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py:385: in
>> connect
>>     return self.dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams)
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>>
>> dsn = 'dbname=alimetrix_test user=alimetrix password=alimetrix
>> host=localhost', database = 'alimetrix_test', user = 'alimetrix', password
>> = 'alimetrix', host = 'localhost', port = None
>> connection_factory = None, cursor_factory = None, async = False, kwargs =
>> {}, items = [('dbname', 'alimetrix_test'), ('user', 'alimetrix'),
>> ('password', 'alimetrix'), ('host', 'localhost')]
>> k = 'host', v = 'localhost'
>>
>>     def connect(dsn=None,
>>             database=None, user=None, password=None, host=None, port=None,
>>             connection_factory=None, cursor_factory=None, async=False,
>> **kwargs):
>>         """
>>         Create a new database connection.
>>
>>         The connection parameters can be specified either as a string:
>>
>>             conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=test user=postgres
>> password=secret")
>>
>>         or using a set of keyword arguments:
>>
>>             conn = psycopg2.connect(database="test", user="postgres",
>> password="secret")
>>
>>         The basic connection parameters are:
>>
>>         - *dbname*: the database name (only in dsn string)
>>         - *database*: the database name (only as keyword argument)
>>         - *user*: user name used to authenticate
>>         - *password*: password used to authenticate
>>         - *host*: database host address (defaults to UNIX socket if not
>> provided)
>>         - *port*: connection port number (defaults to 5432 if not
>> provided)
>>
>>         Using the *connection_factory* parameter a different class or
>> connections
>>         factory can be specified. It should be a callable object taking a
>> dsn
>>         argument.
>>
>>         Using the *cursor_factory* parameter, a new default cursor
>> factory will be
>>         used by cursor().
>>
>>         Using *async*=True an asynchronous connection will be created.
>>
>>         Any other keyword parameter will be passed to the underlying
>> client
>>         library: the list of supported parameters depends on the library
>> version.
>>
>>         """
>>         items = []
>>         if database is not None:
>>             items.append(('dbname', database))
>>         if user is not None:
>>             items.append(('user', user))
>>         if password is not None:
>>             items.append(('password', password))
>>         if host is not None:
>>             items.append(('host', host))
>>         if port is not None:
>>             items.append(('port', port))
>>
>>         items.extend([(k, v) for (k, v) in kwargs.iteritems() if v is not
>> None])
>>
>>         if dsn is not None and items:
>>             raise TypeError(
>>                 "'%s' is an invalid keyword argument when the dsn is
>> specified"
>>                     % items[0][0])
>>
>>         if dsn is None:
>>             if not items:
>>                 raise TypeError('missing dsn and no parameters')
>>             else:
>>                 dsn = " ".join(["%s=%s" % (k, _param_escape(str(v)))
>>                     for (k, v) in items])
>>
>> >       conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory,
>> async=async)
>> E       OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) FATAL:  remaining
>> connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections
>>
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