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[Adam Gandelman <adamg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/22/2012 09:48 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
> This looks like a much better solution than MySQLPingListener.  It 
> would be good to get this into common / nova, especially if we can 
> verify that it works with postgres as well.
>
> Vish

+1 for making this the standard method of initializing databases across 
projects.  A quick test of adding a wrapped call to _ENGINE.connect() in 
the main try/except block of configure_db seems to totally solve the 
issue of services starting at boot before a database is reachable, 
reported @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/+bug/959426

-Adam