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Re: timeout implementation issues

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman@dynamicdiagrams.com>, Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-04-04T22:33:27Z
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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.

			regards, tom lane