Re: idle_in_transaction_timeout

On 06/19/2014 06:33 PM, 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.
>


As long as we can specify the units, and don't have to say 1000 to mean 
1 second, I agree. I would normally expect this to be set in terms of 
minutes rather than millisecs.

cheers

andrew