Re: timeout implementation issues

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman(at)dynamicdiagrams(dot)com>, Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: timeout implementation issues
Date: 2002-04-04 23:48:24
Message-ID: 3CACE648.DF7C8E5E@tpf.co.jp
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I am still looking for a constructive idea on how we can get this to
> > work, rather than calling my ideas "ridiculous".
>
> We know very well how to make it work: JDBC can issue a SET timeout = 0
> after exiting the transaction. You're proposing to change the semantics
> of SET into something quite bizarre in order to allow JDBC to not have
> to work as hard. I think that's a bad tradeoff.

Or we don't have to reset the timeout at all.
For example when we are about to issue a command, we
can check if the requested timeout is different from
the current server's timeout. We don't have to (re)set
the timeout unless they are different.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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