Would it be wise to suggest that it be removed from the django core
given the connection drops every request? It's not done for Postgres
at all and the Oracle base.py is doing what you suggest.
I guess this question would be posed to whomever controls that slice
of the django pie.
bo
On Nov 2
Oh, I forgot to mention that this is certainly a Django issue and not
a mysqldb issue. The relevant code is in django/db/backends/mysql/
base.py:232:
def _valid_connection(self):
if self.connection is not None:
try:
self.connection.ping()
re
Yeah, we found the ping() during performance profiling too. It's a
significant performance hit -- it basically doubles the number of
requests to the DB server. It seems that the reason is to support use
cases where the DB connection is long-lived, since sometimes DB
connections die if you leave th
