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Re: timeout implementation issues

Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman@dynamicdiagrams.com>

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From: Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman@dynamicdiagrams.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-03-30T13:43:32Z
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> There is clearly interest from all interfaces.  This item has been
> requested quite often, usually related to client apps or web apps.

I definitely agree that implementing it in the backend would be the best
plan, if it's feasible. I just can't figure out how to pass information
back to the driver that the request has been cancelled (and that, in
JDBC's case, a SQLException should be thrown). Any thoughts about that?

j