Re: Plans for 8.2?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:59:19AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:49:02AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:30:22AM +0100, H.J. Sanders wrote:
> > > Just one request that would make the transition from another
> > > great database to PostgreSQL a lot easier:
> > >
> > > SET LOCK MODE TO WAIT n
> > >
> > > n = the max.time in second to wait.
> >
> > Will statement_timeout suffice?
>
> (I'm not implying that statement_timeout is equivalent, I'm just
> wondering if you might be able to use it in certain circumstances.)

It strikes me that if we had a way to abort a statement on another
backend, you could abort anything that's been waiting more than x
seconds for a lock via an external process watching pg_locks. Of course,
that would be much more cumbersom than SET LOCK MODE TO WAIT n...
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