From 9c308fca43f8248a4d0880791b6fd3a8a2acc71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sapan Bhatia <gwsapan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 03:07:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Sometimes, backend_status can fail because of unicode issues.
 Ignore for now.

---
 planetstack/openstack_observer/syncstep.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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 @@ class SyncStep:
                 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
-- 
2.43.0