Friday, January 6, 2012

Django reset database connection

4 comments:

  1. Just what I was looking for. Thanks. In my case I want to close the database connection because my program briefly talks to django in the beginning, and then runs for an hour. I've got a lot of these running and don't want to hog the mysql connections.

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  2. I have an offline process that runs every night -- it can make ~10k updates when it runs. About once every 10 days, the site stops working and I have to restart PostgreSQL and then Apache. If I do Apache first, the site doesn't come back up.

    The only suspisious thing in the logs are a lot of these in the Postgres log:
    2012-02-08 17:02:55 UTC LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
    2012-02-08 18:54:05 UTC LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer

    Anyway, I'm saying all this because I put a manual db.close_connection() at the end of my script and that message doesn't appear anymore. I have a feeling that the site will not have to restarted in 10 days time either.

    So thanks!!

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  3. This tiny little piece of code just ended a two-day long troubleshooting fest. I feel like I can take the two minutes to write a thank you to let you know you seriously saved my sanity!

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  4. You just saved me a few more hours of debugging. Thanks!

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