When using Pods on a site that is hosted on WP Engine, you may recently have begun to see “Long Query” errors in your site error logs, due to a recent update to their platform.  This error is generated by any MySQL query that is longer than 1,024 characters. While Pods does, in at least one situation generate a MySQL query that is longer than 1,024 characters, we have verified that it is not an inefficient query. For this reason, we believe that these errors can be safely ignored when they are generated by Pods.

Please do not misconstrue this post as being a warning against using WP Engine for WordPress hosting. This is an example of WP Engine doing everything they can to identify every little thing that may be preventing optimal performance and in some cases this warning may be identifying a valid performance concern. We continue to recommend WP Engine and rely on them to provide hosting for this site.

For more information see:

• WP Engine’s post about long query and killed query warnings.
• The issue that brought this to our attention.