[mysql] nodejs mysql Error: Connection lost The server closed the connection

when I use node mysql, an error is appear between 12:00 to 2:00 that the TCP connection is shutdown by the server. This is the full message:

Error: Connection lost: The server closed the connection.
at Protocol.end (/opt/node-v0.10.20-linux-x64/IM/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:73:13)
at Socket.onend (stream.js:79:10)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
at _stream_readable.js:920:16
at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)

There is the solution. However, after I try by this way, the problem also appear. now I do not know how to do. Does anyone meet this problem?

Here is the way I wrote follow the solution:

    var handleKFDisconnect = function() {
    kfdb.on('error', function(err) {
        if (!err.fatal) {
            return;
        }
        if (err.code !== 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') {
            console.log("PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST");
            throw err;
        }
        log.error("The database is error:" + err.stack);

        kfdb = mysql.createConnection(kf_config);

        console.log("kfid");

        console.log(kfdb);
        handleKFDisconnect();
    });
   };
   handleKFDisconnect();

I do not recall my original use case for this mechanism. Nowadays, I cannot think of any valid use case.

Your client should be able to detect when the connection is lost and allow you to re-create the connection. If it important that part of program logic is executed using the same connection, then use transactions.

tl;dr; Do not use this method.

A pragmatic solution is to force MySQL to keep the connection alive:

setInterval(function () {
    db.query('SELECT 1');
}, 5000);

I prefer this solution to connection pool and handling disconnect because it does not require to structure your code in a way thats aware of connection presence. Making a query every 5 seconds ensures that the connection will remain alive and PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST does not occur.

Furthermore, this method ensures that you are keeping the same connection alive, as opposed to re-connecting. This is important. Consider what would happen if your script relied on LAST_INSERT_ID() and mysql connection have been reset without you being aware about it?

However, this only ensures that connection time out (wait_timeout and interactive_timeout) does not occur. It will fail, as expected, in all others scenarios. Therefore, make sure to handle other errors.

better solution is to use pool - ill handle this for you.

const pool = mysql.createPool({_x000D_
  host: 'localhost',_x000D_
  user: '--',_x000D_
  database: '---',_x000D_
  password: '----'_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
// ... later_x000D_
pool.query('select 1 + 1', (err, rows) => { /* */ });

https://github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/issues/836

Creating and destroying the connections in each query maybe complicated, i had some headaches with a server migration when i decided to install MariaDB instead MySQL. For some reason in the file etc/my.cnf the parameter wait_timeout had a default value of 10 sec (it causes that the persistence can't be implemented). Then, the solution was set it in 28800, that's 8 hours. Well, i hope help somebody with this "güevonada"... excuse me for my bad english.

To simulate a dropped connection try

connection.destroy();

More information here: https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql/blob/master/Readme.md#terminating-connections