Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > ISTM our realistic options are for seconds or msec as the unit. If it's
> > msec, we'd be limited to INT_MAX msec or around 600 hours at the top end,
> > which seems like enough to me but maybe somebody thinks differently?
> > Seconds are probably OK but I'm worried about somebody complaining that
> > that's not enough resolution, especially as machines get faster.
>
> I can picture a 500ms timeout more readily than I can picture a 1000hr
> timeout.
Agreed. 600 hours are upwards of 25 days. Dead tuples accumulated for
that long would be a really serious problem, unless your database is
almost totally idle.
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