Python and Django OperationalError (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

Question

Original: I have recently started getting MySQL OperationalErrors from some of my old code and cannot seem to trace back the problem. Since it was working before, I thought

Answer 1

I've been struggling with this issue too. I don't like the idea of increasing timeout on mysqlserver. Autoreconnect with CONNECTION_MAX_AGE doesn't work either as it was mentioned. Unfortunately I ended up with wrapping every method that queries the database like this

def do_db( callback, *arg, **args):
    try:
        return callback(*arg, **args)
    except (OperationalError, InterfaceError) as e:  # Connection has gone away, fiter it with message or error code if you could catch another errors
        connection.close()
        return callback(*arg, **args)

do_db(User.objects.get, id=123)  # instead of User.objects.get(id=123)

As you can see I rather prefer catching the exception than pinging the database every time before querying it. Because catching an exception is a rare case. I would expect django to reconnect automatically but they seemed to refused that issue.