Failed oracle db connection kills the freeradius service

[R3DNano]

Some of my auth sources are oracle databases via linux odbc.
At some point, those databases might become unreachable for some external
reason, freeradius then enters and stays in a failed state, trying to
stablish the connection. Is there a way to just reject the authentication
if the source is unavailable and prevent the server failure? Is this
working as intended?