I'm currently developing a project with python 3.7, Django 2.1, Mysql as database.
I'm deploying it in google cloud app engine standard environment and for the database I'm using a cloud SQL - MySql 2nd gen instance.
The application works well, however when I analyze the logs I see these errors:
"aborted connection - Got an error reading communication packets"
In this case the connection is being closed by my app (django).If I configure my app to have persistent connections and I put wait_timeout (i.e 60) in the config of the cloud sql, the error is:
"aborted connection - Got timeout reading communication packets".
I just determined that it's not a problem with sql cloud, or with the configuration of my application, but that it's an app engine problem. I came to this conclusion in the following way:
- if I connect to the sql cloud instance through Mysql workbench, no connection is aborted
- Similarly if I run my application on a local server, but connecting to cloud sql (through the cloud_sql_proxy), no error is generated and everything works perfect.
So my conclusion is that it is a problem of how the app engine connects to the cloud sql instance.
Why does this happen? How could it be solved?