Django python-rq -- DatabaseError SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac

django, heroku, postgresql, python-rq

Solution

The problem is solved by closing the DB connection at the beginning of each job.

For example,

@job
some_job():
    from django.db import connection
    connection.close()
    some_more_code()

Problem

I'm using the django-redis and django_rq frameworks to support both redis caching and redis background task processing for my Django application on Heroku. It's worked smoothly in the past, however now I keep getting a `DatabaseError SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac` every time one of my jobs get run. I read that this error occurs commonly with Postgres in the https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/postgres-logs-errors article, but it hasn't really been giving me anything useful for my python setup.

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