Django multiprocessing and database connections

Question

Background:

I\'m working a project which uses Django with a Postgres database. We\'re also using mod_wsgi in case that matters, since some of my web searches have m

Answer 1

I had "closed connection" issues when running Django test cases sequentially. In addition to the tests, there is also another process intentionally modifying the database during test execution. This process is started in each test case setUp().

A simple fix was to inherit my test classes from TransactionTestCase instead of TestCase. This makes sure that the database was actually written, and the other process has an up-to-date view on the data.