On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:24 PM Travis Briggs <audiod...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:35 PM Mike Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:54 PM Travis Briggs <audiod...@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>>
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> 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
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