Re: implementing query timeout

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > >
> > > > Here is my first draft of a query timeout SET variable.
> > >
> > > Unless it only cancels SELECT statements (which may or may not be a good
> > > idea), please call it statement_timeout.
> >
> > Do people prefer query_timeout or statement_timeout?  Doesn't matter to
> > me.
>
> Statements is everything. DDL- and DML-statements. Query is IMHO synonym
> for DML-statement. So query_timeout is the right term.

But the timeout is for any statement, not just SELECT/UPDATE, etc, so it
sounds like you are voting for 'statement'.

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