Re: [GENERAL] 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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> I think we'd use it. At least on our development machines, which have
> occasionally suffered from the ill effects of an excessively ambitious
> query.
>
> How would the interface to the user look?

I assume it would be a new 'SET' option, like "SET TIMEOUT=60", but we
already use alarm() for something else, so it may be more difficult than
I thought. Not sure.

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