[odb-users] MySQL timeout: ODB not reconnecting?

Dieter Van de Walle dieter.vandewalle at newtec.eu
Fri Feb 11 08:50:16 EST 2011


Hello, 

We've been using ODB for persistency for a while now, and it is working very smoothly. 
There's some improvement possible, but very impressed. 

I have just encountered an annoying problem with the connection management of ODB though. 
When a DB connection is inactive, MySQL will timeout the connection after 8 hours. 
This causes ODB to lose the connection and fail any further DB actions with the error: 
"ODB error: 2006 (HY000): MySQL server has gone away" . 

Apparently the 'connection_pool_factory' does not reconnect when connections are gone... ?? 

I was able to fix this by using the 'new_connection_factory' instead of the default 'connection_pool_factory' . 
The 'connection_pool_factory' should check connection status though and reconnect if necessary it seems? 

Very annoying, since this will cause all further DB activity to fail until the session is restarted. 
This behaviour can be triggered by: 
- MySQL default connection timeout 
- Temporary network interruption 

ODB is unable to recover from this when using the 'connection_pool_factory' , very annoying! 

Is this a bug, or can I handle this somehow? 

Best regards, 

Dieter Van de Walle 
C++/Java developer MENOS 

Newtec CY N.V. Laarstraat 5, B-9100 Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 
Tel +32 3 780 65 07 (direct) or +32 3 780 65 00 (switchboard) 

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