RE: AW: [HACKERS] timeout on lock feature

[Mikheev, Vadim]

> One idea Tom had was to make it only active in a transaction, 
> so you do:
> 
>       BEGIN WORK;
>       SET TIMEOUT TO 10;
>       UPDATE tab SET col = 3;
>       COMMIT
> 
> Tom is concerned people will do the SET and forget to RESET 
> it, causing all queries to be affected by the timeout.

And what? Queries would be just aborted. It's not critical event
to take responsibility from user.

Vadim

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