Jessica Perry Hekman wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> One approach might be for the interface to take care of setting the query
> timeout before each query, and just ask the backend to handle timeouts
> per-query. So from the user's perspective, session-level timeouts would
> exist, but the backend would not have to worry about rolling back
> timeouts.
Yes, that would work, but libpq and psql would have trouble doing full
session timeouts.
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