Re: [JDBC] Implementing setQueryTimeout()

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 22:07:50 EST

Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:

>> I think it's a serious, serious conceptual error to tie network timeouts >> to query timeouts.

> Why? I don't understand this argument.

Because the failure mechanisms that you're worried about are completely different in the two cases, and don't necessarily have similar timeout requirements (to say nothing of the appropriate recovery actions).

                        regards, tom lane

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