ug0

ug0

Problem with testing bulk inserts with Task.async_stream

I have code to do bulk insert which looks like this:

stream = build_attrs_stream()

Repo.transaction(fn ->
  stream
  |> Stream.chunk_every(5000)
  |> Task.async_stream(fn batch ->
    {n, _} = Repo.insert_all(Assignment, batch)
    n
  end, ordered: false)
  |> Enum.reduce(0, fn {:ok, n}, acc -> acc + n end)
end)

The above code works fine until I run the test, which gives me error:

(EXIT from #PID<0.544.0>) an exception was raised:
         ** (DBConnection.ConnectionError) connection not available and request was dropped from queue after 939ms. You can configure how long requests wait in the queue using :queue_target and :queue_interval. See DBConnection.start_link/2 for more information

I’m using Phoenix v1.4 and Ecto v3.1, database is Postgres.
Any help?

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benwilson512

benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Hey @ug0 this is because of how the ecto sandbox works during tests. Each test process is provided its own database connection. The Task.async_stream call spawns new processes, and ecto doesn’t know which connection to use. You can solve this by giving Ecto a little more information:

stream = build_attrs_stream()

parent = self()

Repo.transaction(fn ->
  stream
  |> Stream.chunk_every(5000)
  |> Task.async_stream(fn batch ->
    {n, _} = Repo.insert_all(Assignment, batch, caller: parent)
    n
  end, ordered: false)
  |> Enum.reduce(0, fn {:ok, n}, acc -> acc + n end)
end)

The change here is the addition of caller: parent as options to the Repo call.

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