Jaime Casanova wrote:
The context is this - in a busy OLTP system, sometimes a query comes
through that, for whatever reason (foolishness on my part as a
developer, unexpected use by a user, imperfection of the optimizer,
etc.), takes a really long time to run, usually because it table-scans
one or more large tables. If several of these happen at once, it can
grind an important production system effectively to a halt. I'd like to
have a few users/operations get a "sorry, I couldn't find a good way to
do that" message, rather than all the users find that their system has
effectively stopped working.
...
set statement_timeout in postgresql.conf
I found it's better to use "set statement_timeout" in the code, rather than setting it globally. Someone else pointed out to me that setting it in postgresql.conf makes it apply to ALL transactions, including VACUUM, ANALYZE and so forth. I put it in my code just around the queries that are "user generated" -- queries that are from users' input. I expect any SQL that I write to finish in a reasonable time ;-).
Craig
