On 05/02/2011 10:09 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> On 05/02/2011 10:20 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 04/26/2011 12:46 PM, Piotr Czekalski wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> I'd would appreciate such feature, because working over GSM modem, which
>>>> is common to the administrators novadays (I think) is a nightmare ;-).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Got a patch that works. See the attachment. If the query fails, it
>>> checks if it's because of a bad connection. If connection is bad, it
>>> resets it, and executes once again the query. If it still fails, you
>>> have the usual error message. If it succeeds, you won't even notice that
>>> it had to reset the connection.
>>>
>>> I don't see any issue with this patch, but would like others to get a
>>> look. It's wxThread and that kind of stuff is not really my thing
>>> (threading... eeks).
>>>
>>> And one more question, we're really early in beta stage. Usually, it
>>> would have to wait a few months to get commited in next dev cycle. But
>>> it is so early in this stage (actually, beta 1 is not even announced
>>> yet), and it would be a so much welcomed patch that I think it could be
>>> commited for this release (ie, 1.14).
>>>
>>> Any opinions, objections, ideas?
>>
>> You cannot just reconnect silently in a patch like this - the user may
>> have created temp tables or otherwise modified the connection-specific
>> environment before the connection was lost. Blindly reconnecting and
>> then executing the query could have disastrous effects.
>>
>
> Indeed, you're right. I knew I forgot something important with this patch :)
>
> Too bad, because I really liked the silent reconnection. Well, I suppose
> I'll have to change this to make it verbose.
>
Something more like this, then?
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