arangodb/python-arango

Client timeout when building index on large collection

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newnativeabq commented

client.db().collection().add_persistent_index() will timeout when attempting to add an index to a large collection.

HTTP API spec suggests a 200 index building should be received almost immediately.

I will try to reproduce this week. If anyone has seen similar behavior, please let me know.

FIX:
Regress version to 6.1.0

joowani commented

Hi @newnativeabq,

Sounds like this is due to the index building taking longer than the default timeout added to python-arango after version 6.1.0.

Options I can think of:

  • Provide the user a way to disable timeout for specific API operations/methods in python-arango (not be a trivial change)
  • have ArangoDB return an HTTP 201 (probably not backward compatible)
  • Create a new instance of ArangoClient without timeout and create indexes with it only