Re: timeout implementation issues

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman(at)dynamicdiagrams(dot)com>, Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: timeout implementation issues
Date: 2002-04-06 22:17:01
Message-ID: 200204062217.g36MH1916519@candle.pha.pa.us
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Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Lane
> >
> > Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > > Could we get out of this by defining that "timeout" is
> > > automatically reset at next statement end?
> >
> > I was hoping to avoid that, because it seems like a wart. OTOH,
> > it'd be less of a wart than the global changes of semantics that
> > Bruce is proposing :-(
>
> Probably I'm misunderstanding this thread.
> Why must the query_timeout be reset particularly ?
> What's wrong with simply issueing set query_timeout
> command just before every query ?

You could do that, but we also imagine cases where people would want to
set a timeout for each query in an entire session.

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