commit 9c308fca43f8248a4d0880791b6fd3a8a2acc71d
author Sapan Bhatia <gwsapan@gmail.com> Fri Aug 22 03:07:59 2014 -0400
committer Sapan Bhatia <gwsapan@gmail.com> Fri Aug 22 03:07:59 2014 -0400
tree e7ede7f46fa672b1e6ba9a0c36f21f45e784ac98
parent 8fd852b544000d421993119a02c8fe641fa5f796

Sometimes, backend_status can fail because of unicode issues. Ignore
for now.

planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py

diff --git a/planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py b/planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py
index 4852e43..ad148b5 100644
--- a/planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py
+++ b/planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py
@@ -93,10 +93,15 @@
                 except:
                     o.backend_status = str_e
 
+                # TOFIX:
+                # DatabaseError: value too long for type character varying(140)
                 if (o.pk):
-                    o.save(update_fields=['backend_status'])
+                    try:
+                        o.save(update_fields=['backend_status'])
+                    except:
+                        print "Could not update backend status field!"
+                        pass
 
-                logger.log_exc("sync step failed!")
                 failed.append(o)
 
         return failed