Re: Statement timeout not working on broken connections with active queries

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Brendan O'Shea <brendanoshea(at)comcast(dot)net>, Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Statement timeout not working on broken connections with active queries
Date: 2006-12-13 12:52:08
Message-ID: 20061213125208.GA15546@svana.org
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:41:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Brendan O'Shea" <brendanoshea(at)comcast(dot)net> writes:
> > Is there no way to specify a timeout for the write() to the socket or some
> > other way to abort?
>
> This is really a question to take up with your TCP stack implementors.
> I think it is fundamentally wrong for Postgres to be second-guessing
> the network software about whether a network connection is still live.

It would ofcourse be nice if postgres could honour signals while
writing to the client, but the currently that's hard to do.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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