Handle mysql restart in SQLAlchemy

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Published on 2010-06-13T17:39:38Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 17:42 UTC
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My Pylons app uses local MySQL server via SQLAlchemy and python-MySQLdb. When the server is restarted, open pooled connections are apparently closed, but the application doesn't know about this and apparently when it tries to use such connection it receives "MySQL server has gone away":

File '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py', line 277 in do_execute
  cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
File '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/cursors.py', line 166 in execute
  self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
File '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/connections.py', line 35 in defaulterrorhandler
  raise errorclass, errorvalue
OperationalError: (OperationalError) (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

This exception is not caught anywhere so it bubbles up to the user. If I should handle this exception somewhere in my code, please show the place for such code in a Pylons WSGI app. Or maybe there is a solution in SA itself?

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