Hoping that this final revert of settings will do the trick on the corrupt transactions.

fabfile.py

@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ def setup_installs():
         'libdbd-pg-perl',
         'libssl-dev',
         'libffi-dev',
+        'libevent-dev',
         'make',
         'pgbouncer',
         'python-setuptools',
@@ -466,6 +467,21 @@ def setup_hosts():
     put(os.path.join(env.SECRETS_PATH, 'configs/hosts'), '/etc/hosts', use_sudo=True)
     sudo('echo "\n\n127.0.0.1   `hostname`" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts')
 
+def setup_pgbouncer():
+    sudo('apt-get remove -y pgbouncer')
+    sudo('apt-get install -y libevent-dev')
+    PGBOUNCER_VERSION = '1.7'
+    with cd(env.VENDOR_PATH), settings(warn_only=True):
+        run('wget https://pgbouncer.github.io/downloads/files/%s/pgbouncer-%s.tar.gz' % (PGBOUNCER_VERSION, PGBOUNCER_VERSION))
+        run('tar -xzf pgbouncer-%s.tar.gz' % PGBOUNCER_VERSION)
+        run('rm pgbouncer-%s.tar.gz' % PGBOUNCER_VERSION)
+        with cd('pgbouncer-%s' % PGBOUNCER_VERSION):
+            run('./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-libevent=libevent-prefix')
+            run('make')
+            sudo('make install')
+            sudo('ln -s /usr/local/bin/pgbouncer /usr/sbin/pgbouncer')
+    config_pgbouncer()
+    
 def config_pgbouncer():
     put('config/pgbouncer.conf', 'pgbouncer.conf')
     sudo('mv pgbouncer.conf /etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini')

settings.py

@@ -170,10 +170,10 @@ LOGGING = {
             'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
             'include_html': True,
         },
-        'sentry': {
+        # 'sentry': {
-            'level': 'ERROR',
+        #     'level': 'ERROR',
-            'class': 'raven.contrib.django.raven_compat.handlers.SentryHandler'
+        #     'class': 'raven.contrib.django.raven_compat.handlers.SentryHandler'
-        },
+        # },
     },
     'loggers': {
         'django.request': {
@@ -200,16 +200,16 @@ LOGGING = {
             'level': 'INFO',
             'propagate': True,
         },
-        'raven': {
+        # 'raven': {
-            'level': 'DEBUG',
+        #     'level': 'DEBUG',
-            'handlers': ['console'],
+        #     'handlers': ['console'],
-            'propagate': False,
+        #     'propagate': False,
-        },
+        # },
-        'sentry.errors': {
+        # 'sentry.errors': {
-            'level': 'DEBUG',
+        #     'level': 'DEBUG',
-            'handlers': ['console'],
+        #     'handlers': ['console'],
-            'propagate': False,
+        #     'propagate': False,
-        },
+        # },
     },
     'filters': {
         'require_debug_false': {
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django_extensions',
     'djcelery',
-    'kombu.transport.django',
+    # 'kombu.transport.django',
     'vendor.paypal.standard.ipn',
     'apps.rss_feeds',
     'apps.reader',
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ ZEBRA_ENABLE_APP = True
 
 import djcelery
 djcelery.setup_loader()
-from celery import Celery
+# from celery import Celery
-celeryapp = Celery()
+# celeryapp = Celery()
-celeryapp.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
+# celeryapp.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
 CELERY_ROUTES = {
     "work-queue": {
         "queue": "work_queue",
@@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ REDIS_SESSIONS = {
 }
 
 CELERY_REDIS_DB_NUM = 4
+CELERY_REDIS_DB = CELERY_REDIS_DB_NUM
 SESSION_REDIS_DB = 5
 
 # =================
@@ -574,12 +575,12 @@ from local_settings import *
 if not DEBUG:
     INSTALLED_APPS += (
         'gunicorn',
-        'raven.contrib.django.raven_compat',
+        'raven.contrib.django',
         'django_ses',
 
     )
     # RAVEN_CLIENT = raven.Client(dsn=SENTRY_DSN, release=raven.fetch_git_sha(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
-    RAVEN_CLIENT = raven.Client(dsn=SENTRY_DSN)
+    RAVEN_CLIENT = raven.Client(SENTRY_DSN)
     
 
 COMPRESS = not DEBUG

templates/maintenance_off.html

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
                         <img src="/media/img/logo_512.png" class="logo">
                         <h1>NewsBlur is in <span class="error404">maintenance mode</span></h1>
                         <div class="description">
-                            <p>Power cycling the redis DBs to fix the lag that's hit feed fetching all this week. This should take no longer than five minutes.</p>
+                            <p>Power cycling the PostgreSQL DBs to fix the lag that's hit feed fetching all this week. This should take no longer than two minutes.</p>
                             <p>To pass the time, <a href="http://mlkshk.com/popular">check out what's popular on MLKSHK</a>.</p>
                         </div>
                     </div>