[development] Watchdog dieing on large queries

[Moshe Weitzman]

sounds reasonable. please file an issue and ideally provide a patch.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Steven Surowiec
<steven at digitalpulp.com> wrote:
> I've found a workaround for myself for this one but just wanted to put it
> out there. When a query fails watchdog is used to insert it into the DB,
> which is fine 99.9% of the time, until that .1% bites you. The problem is
> that if the query (say inserting a new record into the "cache") causes a
> query that is larger than the MySQL query buffer limit. This results in a
> MySQL error that the query is too large to insert, which watchdog then picks
> up and tries to insert, which fails, which watchdog picks up ... and you get
> the point. Result? Infinite loop and then either a timeout or PHP runs out
> of memory and dies. I'd think the proper way to handle this would be to have
> a check that the specific error code for a MySQL error resulting from a
> query buffer violation doesn't try to insert the query, again just putting
> this out there.
>