If a watchdog entry should be written during a different MySQL table is locked it will fail with MySQL error "Table 'watchdog' was not locked with LOCK TABLES". If a watchdog entry should be written during an open transaction and the transaction will be rolled back, the watchdog entry will be removed as well. Both cases could be avoided if we use a dedicated database connection for writing watchdog entries.
The solution is to declare a dedicated database connection which will not be established until required.
If a watchdog entry is written as part of a transaction it should probably be rolled back with that transaction. But for entries of severity WATCHDOG_ERROR or above we should assume that they should be always written. But his behavior has to be optionally configurable in settings.php.
Original issue: https://drupal.org/node/298768
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Very possibly, I am looking at it now... Sorry I will be travelling away on that date. I will register, so I can look back
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Great news Francis. I'm glad I could help. Any chance we will see you at the upcoming Backdrop Live?
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Well your second Idea seems to have done the trick! So Simple!!!!! I can use this all over the place!!! Big Hug, and Thanks a Million, @yorkshirepudding !!!
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