zope2 rdb and reconnect

I am wondering about the behavior of the publisher  in regards to  
rdb.ZopeDatabaseAdapter when a Retry is raised do to a 
mysqldba.OperationalError.

 From what I understand, when Publisher recieves a Retry it again 
retries the request, but in my current case I see the error message. 
Is my understanding correct that this is what should happen?  If so, 
does this hold true for xmlrpc calls as well?

I am using Zope2.9.8-Final, Five 1.4.4, and making requests with xmlrpc.


-Kevin