AW: AW: timeout on lock feature

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Henryk Szal <szal(at)doctorq(dot)com(dot)pl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: AW: timeout on lock feature
Date: 2001-04-17 15:30:13
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336828E@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > Added to TODO:
> > * Add SET parameter to timeout if waiting for lock too long
>
> I repeat my strong objection to any global (ie, affecting all locks)
> timeout. Such a "feature" will have unpleasant consequences.

Except that other people like myself, see those consequences
as a pleasant thing :-) And we are talking about something that has to be
requested by the client explicitly (at least in a default installation).

It simply does make sense for an interactive client to not block
more than ~ 30 seconds.

Andreas

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