On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/2/19 patrick keshishian <pkeshish@gmail.com>:
>> On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> One crude method would be to set statement_timeout to a nonzero
>>> value - then queries that take longer than that many seconds
>>> will be canceled.
>>
>>
>> you don't truly mean to advise that, do you? :)
>
> it is not bad advice - usually all long queries should be cancelled by
> timeout - and timeout is the most simple and sometimes good enough
> solution. You can set timeout just for account used for login from web
> application
It would be nice if a long running query could occasionally check to
see if it still has somewhere to send the results it is computing.
Rather than running for hours only to give a "could not send data to
client: Broken pipe" as soon as the first row becomes available.
client_alive_timeout?
Cheers,
Jeff
