Tony Wasson <ajwasson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am also interested in being able to terminate *certain* long running > queries. I didn't want to use statement_timeout because there are some > queries that must run for a long time - in our case some queries that > create summary tables. Other long running queries should be killed. You do know that statement_timeout can be changed freely via SET, right? One way to attack this would be for the clients that are issuing known long-running queries to do "SET statement_timeout" to boost up their allowed runtime. regards, tom lane