On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:34:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > daveg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > lock-timeout sets statement_timeout to a small value while locks are being > > taken on all the tables. Then it resets it to default. So it could reset it > > to whatever the new default is. > > "reset to default" is *surely* not the right behavior; resetting to the > setting that had been in effect might be a bit sane. But the whole > design sounds pretty broken to start with. The timer management code > already understands the concept of scheduling the interrupt for the > nearest of a couple of potentially active timeouts. ISTM any patch > intended to add a feature like this ought to extend that logic rather > than hack around changing the values of global variables.
Are we talking about the same patch? Because I don't know what you are refering to with "timer management code" and "scheduling the interrupt" in the context of pg_dump. -dg -- David Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510 536 1443 510 282 0869 If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches