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Excerpts from Sean McGinnis's message of 2017-05-23 11:38:34 -0500:
> > 
> > This sounds like something we could fix completely by dropping the
> > use of the offending library. I know there was a lot of work done
> > to get pymysql support in place. It seems like we can finish that by
> > removing support for the old library and redirecting mysql://
> > connections to use pymysql.
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> 
> I think that may be ideal. If there are known issues with the library,
> and we have a different and well tested alternative that we know works,
> it's probably easier all around to just redirect internally to use
> pymysql.

Now we just have to find the code that's doing the mapping to the
driver. It doesn't seem to be oslo.db. Is it sqlalchemy?

Doug

> 
> The one thing I don't know is if there are any valid reasons for someone
> wanting to use mysql over pymysql.