#------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # In my performance tests, using this (as in dbtest.py test4) is # slightly slower than simply compiling _db.c with MYDB_THREAD # undefined to prevent multithreading support in the C module. # Using NoDeadlockDb also prevent deadlocks from mutliple processes # accessing the same database. # # Copyright (C) 2000 Autonomous Zone Industries # # License: This is free software. You may use this software for any # purpose including modification/redistribution, so long as # this header remains intact and that you do not claim any # rights of ownership or authorship of this software. This # software has been tested, but no warranty is expressed or # implied. # # Author: Gregory P. Smith # # Note: I don't know how useful this is in reality since when a # DBDeadlockError happens the current transaction is supposed to be # aborted. If it doesn't then when the operation is attempted again # the deadlock is still happening... # --Robin # #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # import the time.sleep function in a namespace safe way to allow # "from bsddb3.db import *" # from time import sleep _sleep = sleep del sleep import _db _deadlock_MinSleepTime = 1.0/64 # always sleep at least N seconds between retrys _deadlock_MaxSleepTime = 1.0 # never sleep more than N seconds between retrys def DeadlockWrap(function, *_args, **_kwargs): """DeadlockWrap(function, *_args, **_kwargs) - automatically retries function in case of a database deadlock. This is a DeadlockWrapper method which DB calls can be made using to preform infinite retrys with sleeps in between when a DBLockDeadlockError exception is raised in a database call: d = DB(...) d.open(...) DeadlockWrap(d.put, "foo", data="bar") # set key "foo" to "bar" """ sleeptime = _deadlock_MinSleepTime while (1) : try: return apply(function, _args, _kwargs) except _db.DBLockDeadlockError: print 'DeadlockWrap sleeping ', sleeptime _sleep(sleeptime) # exponential backoff in the sleep time sleeptime = sleeptime * 2 if sleeptime > _deadlock_MaxSleepTime : sleeptime = _deadlock_MaxSleepTime #------------------------------------------------------------------------