passive connection not reconnected if ovs service is restarted

scenario:

controller initiates the connection to passive ovs instance (e.g. ptcp)

instance is connected and configurations can be made

restart the ovs instance (reboot entire system, stop/start ovsdb-server/ovs-vswitchd)

result:

ovs instance is no longer connected or existing in operational store. ovsdb
plugin does not seem to retry connection.