MySQLDB - server has gone on blob insertion...

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Tuesday 01 June 2010 12:46:40 John Nagle wrote:
> durumdara wrote:
> >>> When I tried to start this, I got error:
> >>> _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone
> >>> away')
> 
>     Are you by any chance trying to do this on a HostGator account?
> HostGator servers run a program which kills long MySQL transactions
> by executing MySQL "KILL" transactions.
> This is reported to the user as 'MySQL server has gone away'

I don't think HostGator is alone in this -- AFAIK several web hosts (including 
mine) do it too.


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