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Hi team, question about retries. Is there a good way to retry a task conditionally? Specifically, I want to retry a task on certain failures (e.g. db deadlocks). My thought was to use a state handler to detect the right situation (easy) but then how would I actually invoke the retry? Maybe return a new `Retrying` State object? Couldn’t find any doc examples of this and wanted to know if I missed anything obvious before spelunking. Thanks! :pray:

Hey Jeff,
This is a really interesting question, let me get some more information on best practices here.

Though I love doc spelunking, I think your best bet is to use a <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/engine/signals.html#retry|RETRY signal> in the state handler that initiates whenever this <https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/execution.html#state-signals|conditional logic is met>. Returning a new state object could work, but I think this signal will be cleaner.