r18672 - gnucash/trunk/src/backend/dbi - Bug #608032: Handle MySQL connection timeouts with reconnect

[Christian Stimming]

Author: cstim
Date: 2010-02-18 00:28:22 -0500 (Thu, 18 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 18672
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18672

Modified:
   gnucash/trunk/src/backend/dbi/gnc-backend-dbi.c
Log:
Bug #608032: Handle MySQL connection timeouts with reconnect

Patch by Tom van Braeckel:

For the full discussion, see the mailing list:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-February/027323.html

Rationale: When we try to open a database transaction, and the database reports
that the "server has gone away", we try to reconnect before failing hard.