Re: lock_timeout GUC patch

Tom Lane írta:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 2010/1/20 Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>:
>>     
>>> Attached with the proposed modification to lift the portability concerns.
>>>       
>
>   
>> I think that it is a very bad idea to implement this feature in a way
>> that is not 100% portable.
>>     
>
> Agreed, this is not acceptable.  If there were no possible way to
> implement the feature portably, we *might* consider doing it like this.
> But I think more likely it'd get rejected anyway.  When there is a
> clear path to a portable solution, it's definitely not going to fly
> to submit a nonportable one.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>   

OK, I will implement it using setitimer().
It may not reach 8.5 though, when will this last Commitfest end?

Thanks,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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