On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM, David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> query | BEGIN; >> SET LOCAL statement_timeout TO 1000; >> DROP INDEX public.idx1; >> ALTER INDEX public.idx2 RENAME TO idx1; >> END; > > If I read this correctly you sent the entire begin...end as a single > compound statement and so, depending on how you did this, the actual SET > LOCAL command never got executed since the entire command is waiting for the > necessary locks before it can be executed. Right, I send it as a single command. > Your sample test doesn't appear to correctly exercise this behavior. Are > you maybe using -c in the problem case? Or a client library besides psql > that would behave in this manner? In this case I use DBD::Pg, but I haven't found any notes about such kind of behavior. > Note that the fact that "query" is a compound statement is why I claim the > above... So, If I separate the commands everything will will work as expected, correct? > > David J. > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/statement-timeout-doesn-t-work-tp5811704p5812037.html > Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Kind regards, Sergey Konoplev PostgreSQL Consultant and DBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp +1 (415) 867-9984, +7 (499) 346-7196, +7 (988) 888-1979 gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx