Create DB connection and maintain on multiple processes (multiprocessing)

Question

Similar to another post I made, this answers that post and creates a new question.

Recap: I need to update every record in a spatial database in which I have a data

Answer 1

Try to isolate the creation of your connection in the Consumer constructor, then give it to the executed Task :

import multiprocessing, time, psycopg2

class Consumer(multiprocessing.Process):

    def __init__(self, task_queue, result_queue):
        multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
        self.task_queue = task_queue
        self.result_queue = result_queue
        self.pyConn = psycopg2.connect("dbname='geobase_1' host = 'localhost'")
        self.pyConn.set_isolation_level(0)


    def run(self):
        proc_name = self.name
        while True:
            next_task = self.task_queue.get()
            if next_task is None:
                print 'Tasks Complete'
                self.task_queue.task_done()
                break            
            answer = next_task(connection=self.pyConn)
            self.task_queue.task_done()
            self.result_queue.put(answer)
        return


class Task(object):
    def __init__(self, a):
        self.a = a

    def __call__(self, connection=None):        
        pyConn = connection
        pyCursor1 = pyConn.cursor()

        procQuery = 'UPDATE city SET gid_fkey = gid FROM country  WHERE ST_within((SELECT the_geom FROM city WHERE city_id = %s), country.the_geom) AND city_id = %s' % (self.a, self.a)

        pyCursor1.execute(procQuery)
        print 'What is self?'
        print self.a

        return self.a

    def __str__(self):
        return 'ARC'
    def run(self):
        print 'IN'