Re: Postgresql and VBA - Connection Timeout

On 11/07/2019 3:04 p.m., Wayne Mell wrote:
> Can someone help me with executing a postgres function from VBA?  No
> matter what function I call, it always times out after exactly 30
> seconds.  I've tried to use the statement_timeout a million different
> ways and always get an error that states "Cancelling statement due to
> statement timeout" in Access.
>
> Here is the code I've been using to test:
>
> Dim cnn As ADODB.Connection
> Dim cnnCmd As ADODB.Command
>
>  Set cnn = New ADODB.Connection
>        cnn.ConnectionString = "Driver={PostgreSQL
> Unicode(x64)};Server=postgres.office.server;Port=5432;Database=DBS;UID=postgresuser;PWD=postgrespwd;"
>        cnn.ConnectionTimeout = 0
>        cnn.Open
>
> Set cnnCmd = New ADODB.Command
> cnnCmd.CommandTimeout = 0

I found that the default of 0 meaning no timeout doesn't seem to work.

What happens if you set cnnCmd.CommandTimeout = 60 for the sleep test of 50?

George

>
> Set cnnCmd = cnn.Execute("select pg_sleep(50);")
>
> There are other functions that I've tried to execute, and they all
> work as long as they take less than 30 seconds to run.  I just started
> running pg_sleep to test.
>
> If I log into pgAdmin with the same user name and password, and on the
> same machine, then the functions will execute no matter how long they
> take.  It's only through VBA and the psqlODBC driver that I have the
> 30 second timeout limit.
>
> Has anyone found a way to make this work?  Thanks.
>
>
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