Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Does the backend support, or could it be easily modified to support, > a mechanism that would post the command string after a configurable > amount of time had expired, and then continue processing the query? Not really, unless you want to add the overhead of setting a timer interrupt for every query. Which is sort of counterproductive when the motivation is to reduce overhead ... (It might be more or less free if you have statement_timeout set, since there would be a setitimer call anyway. But I don't think that's the norm.) regards, tom lane