Activity.Search: fallback on status resolution on DB Timeout

Backport of: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3507

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - TwitterAPI: Make `change_password` and `change_email` require params on body instead of query
 - Subscription(Bell) Notifications: Don't create from Pipeline Ingested replies
 - AdminAPI: Fix rendering reports containing a `nil` object
+- Mastodon API: Activity Search fallbacks on status fetching after a DB Timeout/Error
 
 ## 2.4.0 - 2021-08-08
 

lib/pleroma/activity/search.ex

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def search(user, search_query, options \\ []) do
         :plain
       end
 
+    try do
       Activity
       |> Activity.with_preloaded_object()
       |> Activity.restrict_deactivated_users()
@@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ def search(user, search_query, options \\ []) do
         :offset
       )
       |> maybe_fetch(user, search_query)
+    rescue
+      _ -> maybe_fetch([], user, search_query)
+    end
   end
 
   def maybe_restrict_author(query, %User{} = author) do