Re: [pgadmin-support] Reconnection problem.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> 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?

That doesn't look entirely objectionable :-p

Couple of wording tweaks though - first, why not reuse the existing
reconnection messages:

wxMessageDialog dlg(this, _("Do you want to attempt to reconnect to
the database?"),
wxString::Format(_("Connection to database %s lost."),
db->GetName().c_str()),
wxICON_EXCLAMATION | wxYES_NO | wxYES_DEFAULT);

Second:

"Connection resetted." -> "Connection reset."

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