>> I want to allow some queries for my users to run for a prescribed period of >> time and kill them if they go over time. Is there a good way to do this? > set statement_timeout perhaps? Ooh. I like that. It would be absolutely brilliant if I could figure out how to get it to work with ADO and the Windoze ODBC driver. I've tried appending statement_timeout to my connection string i.e. ConnString = "DRIVER={PostgreSQL Unicode};SERVER=MYSERVER;DATABASE=MYDB;UID=client;set_timeout=1" but it has no effect on a SELECT statement that takes at least 3 or 4 seconds to execute and only returns 184 (out of 600,000) records. I've also tried different syntaxes to pass the parameter set_timeout=1 set_timeout='1' set_timeout=(1) set_timeout=('1')