It happened on a project I was working on that we had to implement a divide & conquer algorithm using our background jobs processor, in this case we were using sidekiq. Implementing this using sidekiq can be quite challenging since all the workers are independent and they do not trigger any callback once they’re done.
We have a Rails app that is saving a new ActiveRecord object, and then immediately afterwards, enqueueing a Resque job that looks up that record by its ID. Sometimes, the lookup inside the resque job fails – it claims no such row with that ID exists.
If we put the lookup into a loop that catches that exception and retries the exact same lookup, it always eventually succeeds, usually after 1-2 seconds.
The ID exists on the ActiveRecord object before the job is enqueued, which (I think) means that the save transaction has completed. But the resque job is using a different database connection, so maybe there's some weird caching going on? But here Google has failed us.
Any ideas? We could leave it in a loop that catches the exception, sleeps 1 second, and retries, but: ugh.
Some ideas from the audience:
There is a connection object that can be queried about transaction states.
Wait for transaction count increment/decrement?
Could be a problem with the way that sqlite fakes nested transactions.
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