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I’m running Django 1.3 with PostgreSQL 9.1/PostGIS 1.5, psycopg2 2.4.2 and pgbouncer 1.4.2.
On every single connection to the database I get a log entry in pgbouncer.log:
2011-11-20 02:15:25.027 29538 LOG S-0x96c2200: app_db/postgres@192.168.171.185:5432 closing because: unclean server (age=0).
I can’t find any solution to this problem – anybody have an idea why? I’ve tried reconfiguring pgbouncer (session/transaction mode, different timeouts etc), but to no avail.
Ok, I think I’ve figured this out. The problem lies with a long-standing issue with Django and Psycopg2. Basically, Psycopg2 will automatically issue a BEGIN statement to the DB. However, if Django thinks no data-modification has occurred, it won’t issue a COMMIT at the end of a transaction.
There are a few solutions to this problem, look at http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyOSCON/unbreaking-your-django-application for more details. Ideally you turn off automatic commits (by setting autocommit = True in your DB settings, awkward naming convention). This prevents transactions on read-only functions, but also on write functions so you need to manually wrap those functions in a @commit_on_success decorator.
Alternatively, just add the django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware to your Middleware classes. This will wrap every request in a transaction. This means also unnecessarily wrapping read-only requests in a transaction, but it’s a quick-and-dirty solution.