Re: Terminate query on page exit

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "patrick keshishian *EXTERN*" <pkeshish(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Terminate query on page exit
Date: 2013-02-19 12:42:03
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B057B522A@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at
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patrick keshishian wrote:
>>> Any method to kill such query would it still hang out there?
>>
>> One crude method would be to set statement_timeout to a nonzero
>> value - then queries that take longer than that many seconds
>> will be canceled.
>
> you don't truly mean to advise that, do you? :)

Well, it might be useful as a kind of safeguard against
runaway queries that hog the server for hours.

If you expect that no reasonable query will take
more than a couple of minutes, you could set
statement_timeout=600 to kill anything that's still alive
after 10 minutes.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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