From c1cf79d0e025cc6cae9029d9a0974915b858663a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sylvain Bellemare <sylvain@ascribe.io>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:22:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Pass a message to the exception

otherwise nothing gets printed when printing the exception
---
 bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/admin.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/admin.py b/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/admin.py
index 23b55048..863ffb31 100644
--- a/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/admin.py
+++ b/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/admin.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def reconfigure(connection, *, table, shards, replicas,
     try:
         return connection.run(r.table(table).reconfigure(**params))
     except (r.ReqlOpFailedError, r.ReqlQueryLogicError) as e:
-        raise OperationError from e
+        raise OperationError('Failed to reconfigure tables.') from e
 
 
 @register_admin(RethinkDBConnection)