Django + FastCGI - randomly raising OperationalError

Question

I\'m running a Django application. Had it under Apache + mod_python before, and it was all OK. Switched to Lighttpd + FastCGI. Now I randomly get the following exception (ne

Answer 1

An applicable quote:

"2019 anyone?" - half of YouTube comments, circa 2019

If anyone is still dealing with this, make sure your app is "eagerly forking" such that your Python DB driver (psycopg2 for me) isn't sharing resources between processes.

I solved this issue on uWSGI by adding the lazy-apps = true option, which causes is to fork app processes right out of the gate, rather than waiting for copy-on-write. I imagine other WSGI / FastCGI hosts have similar options.