Jeroen Geusebroek wrote: > I was wondering how i can limit a script from waiting too long for > a database query to return. > > The problem is that it will wait an infinite time while performing a > query on a database when there is for example a lock on a table. I > want it to exit/fail when a set amount of time has passed. What RDBMS are you using? If you are using Postgres you can use pg_send_query() which is non-blocking. I don't think the other database backends/php drivers support such functionality, but I could be wrong... Maybe someone else knows of another way to accomplish this with the other backends... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php