On 2 April 2018 at 22:28, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > >> On Apr 2, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Paul Neuwirth <m...@paul-neuwirth.nl> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> is it possible to change somewhere the connection timeout to a MySQL >> server on the client side? >> Or could it be possible to implement a keep-alive? >> Everytime the connection is lost, I need to restart gnucash. > > I don't think that it's possible from the client. IIUC (and I'm not a MySQL > expert, but if you're using it you should be or you should hire one) it's a > server-side parameter called wait_timeout. > > No, we're not going to add a keep-alive. > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23399111/safely-keeping-mysql-connections-alive > says that a connection pool is the right way to handle this, but the > database abstraction library we use doesn't support that so it's not going to > get added any time soon.
However if GnuCash fails in a non-recoverable way when you lose the connection I would have thought that would be a bug. What exact symptom are you seeing? Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
