Re: timeout implementation issues

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > ... It will be tricky to manage multiple
> > alarms in a single process, but it can be done by creating an alarm
> > queue.
> 
> I would argue that we should only support *one* kind of timeout, either
> transaction-level or statement-level, so as to avoid that complexity.
> I don't want to see us gilding the lily in the first implementation of
> something that IMHO is of dubious usefulness in the first place.
> We can think about extending the facility later, when and if it proves
> sufficiently useful to justify more complexity.
> 
> I don't have a very strong feeling about whether transaction-level or
> statement-level is more useful; am willing to do whichever one the
> JDBC spec wants.

Agreed, only one timeout.  I just considered the statement/transaction
level quite interesting.  We could easily do GUC for query level, and
allow BEGIN WORK to override that for transaction level.  That would
give us the best of both worlds, if we want it.  I am not sure what
people are going to use this timeout for.  My guess is that only
transaction level is the way to go.

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