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| -rw-r--r-- | common/changes/bug_5449_preload-strptime-to-avoid-multi-thread-problem | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py | 11 |
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diff --git a/common/changes/bug_5449_preload-strptime-to-avoid-multi-thread-problem b/common/changes/bug_5449_preload-strptime-to-avoid-multi-thread-problem new file mode 100644 index 00000000..17d1f463 --- /dev/null +++ b/common/changes/bug_5449_preload-strptime-to-avoid-multi-thread-problem @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ + o Preload time.strptime() to avoid multi-threaded problem on couch backend + get_docs() method (#5449). diff --git a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py index 1bb84985..8e8613a1 100644 --- a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py +++ b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py @@ -1401,6 +1401,17 @@ class CouchDatabase(CommonBackend): in matching doc_ids order. :rtype: iterable """ + # Workaround for: + # + # http://bugs.python.org/issue7980 + # https://leap.se/code/issues/5449 + # + # python-couchdb uses time.strptime, which is not thread safe. In + # order to avoid the problem described on the issues above, we preload + # strptime here by evaluating the conversion of an arbitrary date. + # This will not be needed when/if we switch from python-couchdb to + # paisley. + time.strptime('Mar 4 1917', '%b %d %Y') # spawn threads to retrieve docs threads = [] for doc_id in doc_ids: |