Obscure MySQLdb question - duplicating a database handle

[John Bokma]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:

>   I have a system which does error logging to its database:
>
> 	db = MySQLdb.connect(...) # get database connection
> 	...
> 	errorlog(db, "Message")
>
> The problem is that I want errorlog to commit its message to
> the table used for error logging, but don't want to commit
> whatever the caller was doing - that may well revert.
>
> MySQL doesn't support nested transactions, so that won't help.
> At the many points errorlog is called, only the database
> handle is available, not the params used for "connect".
>
> Is there something like UNIX "dup" for database connections
> in MySQLdb, or can I get the connection parameters (username,
> password, database, etc.) from the "db" object?

Maybe I am not clear anymore (long day), but why not make 2 db
connections? It might even be better since you can give each one its own
user and hence, privileges.

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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