When the DB connection is bad, it is not reaped and reconnected, but continues giving errors [moved]

[julienschmidt]

This is Issue 15 moved from a Google Code project.
Added by 2012-10-17T14:23:23.000Z by julian.morrison.
Please review that bug for more context and additional comments, but update this bug.
Closed (Duplicate).

Original labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium

Original description

<b>Problem summary:</b>
I had a &quot;too many open connections&quot; error on MySQL. The sql.DB connections I had open started giving errors like

    [MySQL] 2012/10/17 15:12:58 packets:102 write tcp 127.0.0.1:3306: broken pipe

They did not reconnect.

<b>Used go-mysql-version (e.g. May 26, 2012):</b>
May 30, 2012

<b>MySQL-Server version (e.g. MySQL-Server 5.5 or MariaDB 5.1):</b>
MySQL-Server 5.5.24

<b>Used Operation System (e.g. Windows 7 64bit, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit):</b>
Ubuntu 12.04 32bit