Auto-timeout on all queries

> I would like to make one small request for future releases. Is there a
> setup parameter that could be enabled that would put a timeout for a query
> that runs too long or endangers the integrity of the system? With the
> systems that I use, there are times that queries are entered that contain
> errors or run so long that they eventually cause a system crash. It would
> be most helpful if a timeout limit on queries could be enabled that would
> stop a query after so much time and release the resources back to the system.

Does anyone thing this would be a nice feature? We can easily do it
with alarm()/elog(), but I want to know if it would be valuable.

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