On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:24 PM Travis Briggs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:35 PM Mike Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:54 PM Travis Briggs <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to apply a unit of work pattern, where I'm processing all of >> > the "items" in a category, and I'm opening my session before I query for >> > the items in the category, then closing the session when the items are all >> > processed. >> > >> > However, this still could take several minutes and I'm getting the "MySQL >> > Server has gone away" message on the session.close() call. This seems to >> > be relatively innocuous: my app continues running and everything is fine, >> > apparently. Just to note, I am using pool_pre_ping=True. >> > >> > Just wondering if I should: >> > >> > Ignore this error, or >> > Not be closing the session and just letting it get garbage collected. >> >> you shouldn't be getting that error and it is a sign something is not >> working correctly. you'd need to review your session lifecycle >> code. >> >> > > I'm not in direct contact with the DBA for this app, but my understanding is > that the database has very strict/limited timeouts for connections. Couldn't > it be that the connection is simply timing out between the time I create it > and the time I call session.close()? Would that be example of a problem with > my session lifecycle code, that I'm just taking too long?
you shouldn't have connections checked out for an indeterminate period of time, the connection should be checked out, do what you need to do on it,then check it back in. long running transactions that sit idly open is an anti pattern. > > Thanks, > -Travis > >> >> > >> > Thanks, >> > -Travis >> > >> > -- >> > SQLAlchemy - >> > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper >> > >> > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ >> > >> > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and >> > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full >> > description. >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "sqlalchemy" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> SQLAlchemy - >> The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper >> >> http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ >> >> To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and >> Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full >> description. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sqlalchemy/KaxgiVX-65k/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > SQLAlchemy - > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ > > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full > description. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
