From f9748042c2fb94f006444ad1106b3d38397fc218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vrde <agranzot@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:14:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix exception handling in changefeed

---
 bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/changefeed.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/changefeed.py b/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/changefeed.py
index fb2dec1f..390ada9a 100644
--- a/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/changefeed.py
+++ b/bigchaindb/backend/rethinkdb/changefeed.py
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ class RethinkDBChangeFeed(ChangeFeed):
             try:
                 self.run_changefeed()
                 break
-            except BackendError as exc:
-                logger.exception(exc)
+            except (BackendError, r.ReqlDriverError) as exc:
+                logger.exception('Error connecting to the database, retrying')
                 time.sleep(1)
 
     def run_changefeed(self):