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PDO ignoring ATTR_TIMEOUT

Ref. issue #3149

https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/issues/3149

  • I connect to an external MySql DB just on one page
  • In order to connect to this external Database, I'm using \Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\MySql object
  • I'm doing this because this new connection will be used by some Models built specifically for this external DB
  • Sometimes this external DB is not accessible or it takes a very long time to establish the connection
  • When I build this new connection, I'm using the following code:
ini_set( 'default_socket_timeout', $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT );
ini_set( 'connect_timeout', $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT );
ini_set( 'mysql.connect_timeout', $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT );
ini_set( 'mysqlnd.net_read_timeout', $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT );

$externalDB = new \Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql( array(
    'host'        => $hostname,
    'username'    => $dbUser,
    'password'    => $dbPassword,
    'dbname'      => $database->dbname,
    'charset'     => $database->charset,
    \PDO::ATTR_TIMEOUT => $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
));

where $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT is a parameter with the number of seconds for the timeout.

PROBLEM: actually the timeout is completely ignored by the application. Nginx will throw a 504 Gateway timeout error after 60 seconds.

If I put, for instance, $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 1 second it will still wait 60 seconds before throwing 504.

Could you please help me?

I'm using Phalcon 3.0.3, PHP 7.0, Nginx.



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edited Jul '17

Nginx timeout has nothing to with PDO timeout.

And for additional PDO settings you need to put them into 'options' array.

example when $dbConfig is a single level array like your config is:

$dbConfig['options'] = [
        PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => 2
        PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION
    ];

And try to get rid of array() syntax, in favor of []:

$externalDB = new \Phalcon\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql([
    'host'        => $hostname,
    'username'    => $dbUser,
    'password'    => $dbPassword,
    'dbname'      => $database->dbname,
    'charset'     => $database->charset,
    'options' => [\PDO::ATTR_TIMEOUT => $settings->EXTERNAL_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT]
]);


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My fault. Stupidly, I had inserted the timeout configuration parameter directly into the connection array and not in the 'options' field.