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Discussion on: Go sql.DB Periodic Error: invalid connection

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Alex Pliutau •

I don't think it's a good workaround. What happens if you lost connection but your goroutine is still waiting for next run?

Also, instead of for+sleep you can use time.NewTicker

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Aaron Ellington •

I don't think it's a good workaround. What happens if you lost connection but your goroutine is still waiting for next run?

So would the suggestion here be to retry faster if the connection is lost?

Also, instead of for+sleep you can use time.NewTicker

Thanks, I'll look into that!