Re: Broken pipe

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:07:18PM +0200, Ben-Nes Yonatan wrote:
>
>
>>I wrote a php script which is running very long queries (hours) on a
>>database.
>>I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries
>>which take long times (like 5 hours for an update query), from the log
>>of the database I received the following code:
>>
>>
>
>My experience with long running backend queries is that IE gives up
>after a while but Netscape hangs on a lot longer. I don't know if this
>is still the case. It was a while while I worked out why it worked for
>me but not my boss...
>
>You need to work who is giving up, the client which causes PHP to give
>up, or if PHP itself is giving up. PostgreSQL doesn't care overly much,
>as long as you complete the transaction.
>
>My suggestion would be to spawn the update into a seperate process and
>send a "Processing, please wait" to the client. When the stuff is done,
>set a flag and indicate to the client that processing is complete.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>
Well this is not the case (sadly.. :)) cause the process is running at
the server without any browser interface.