Re: [JDBC] Support for JDBC setQueryTimeout, et al.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Rados*aw Smogura<rsmogura@softperience.eu> wrote:
>
>> I updated patch to latets CVS version, I didn't have time to
>> remove some trashes from it.
>>
>> If something will be wrong with patch, give a feedback.
>
> I skimmed it and agree that it is the right general approach --
> using java.util.Timer to trigger the cancel method.  It doesn't
> confuse the function of the setQueryTimeout method of the JDBC
> driver with the statement_timeout GUC of PostgreSQL, which strike me
> as no more or less similar to each other than the brakes on my car
> are to a highway guardrail -- both are designed to stop something,
> but under different circumstances.
>
> I certainly can't fault you for lack of testing, since about
> two-thirds of the patch is testing classes.  I didn't see any need
> to include the last two classes (ByteConverter and
> InfiniteTimerTask); can you explain why those are in there?
>
> That said, some of the details of the implementation gave me pause
> -- there seem to be rather more moving parts and more places to
> check things than the overall complexity of the problem would seem
> to warrant; however, it's entirely possible that on closer review
> I'll find that they were necessary for reasons which escape me on a
> quick scan of the code.
>
> If you could add this to the open CommitFest, I'll be glad to review
> it (if nobody beats me to it):
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open

Is this a JDBC patch or a PG patch?  Are we tracking JDBC patches
using the CF app?

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