Re: timeout implementation issues

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman@dynamicdiagrams.com>, Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-04-05T03:22:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.

It that acceptable to the JDBC folks?  It requires two "SET timeout = 0"
statements, one after the statement in the transaction, and another
after the transaction COMMIT WORK.

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