How to handle MySQL connection(s) with Python multithreading

Question

I have a main Python script which connects to a MySQL database and pulls out few records from it. Based on the result returned it starts as many threads (class instances) as man

Answer 1

It seems there's no problem with my code but with my MySQL version. I'm using MySQL standard community edition and based on the official documentation found here :

The thread pool plugin is a commercial feature. It is not included in MySQL community distributions.

I'm about to upgrade to MariaDB to solve this issue.