RE: AW: timeout on lock feature - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> One idea Tom had was to make it only active in a transaction, 
> so you do:
> 
>     BEGIN WORK;
>     SET TIMEOUT TO 10;
>     UPDATE tab SET col = 3;
>     COMMIT
> 
> Tom is concerned people will do the SET and forget to RESET 
> it, causing all queries to be affected by the timeout.

And what? Queries would be just aborted. It's not critical event
to take responsibility from user.

Vadim