Django 4.0.1 - guide with Async Views and Database Connection Timeouts
I keep running into After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out..... I'm working with a `DatabaseError` indicating a connection timeout when trying to access my async views in a Django 4.0.1 application. The async views are set up to fetch data from the database using Django's ORM, but they seem to hang intermittently, especially under load. The behavior message I receive is: `django.db.utils.DatabaseError: connection timed out`. Here's a snippet of the code for the async view: ```python from django.http import JsonResponse from asgiref.sync import sync_to_async from .models import MyModel async def my_async_view(request): data = await sync_to_async(fetch_data)() return JsonResponse(data) @sync_to_async def fetch_data(): return list(MyModel.objects.all().values()) ``` I tried increasing the database connection timeout settings in my `settings.py`, but that hasn't resolved the scenario. I also considered using `aiomysql` for asynchronous database operations, but I prefer to stick with the Django ORM for now. What can I do to prevent these connection timeouts in my async views? Any suggestions on optimizing the database access or handling the async requests more efficiently would be greatly appreciated. Additionally, I notice that when I run the same operation in a synchronous view, it performs fine, which leads me to believe it may be related to how Django handles async database queries. Iām running PostgreSQL 13.2 with the default connection pooling settings. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong here? How would you solve this?