Re: timeout implementation issues

Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Lane
> > 
> > Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> > >     Could  we  get  out  of  this  by  defining that "timeout" is
> > >     automatically reset at next statement end?
> > 
> > I was hoping to avoid that, because it seems like a wart.  OTOH,
> > it'd be less of a wart than the global changes of semantics that
> > Bruce is proposing :-(
> 
> Probably I'm misunderstanding this thread.
> Why must the query_timeout be reset particularly ?
> What's wrong with simply issueing set query_timeout
> command just before every query ?

You could do that, but we also imagine cases where people would want to
set a timeout for each query in an entire session.

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