> What might be a reasonable alternative would be a BEGIN timeout: report
> failure as soon as possible after N seconds unless the timer is reset,
> such as by a commit. Such a timeout would be meaningful at the
> database-interface level. It could serve as a useful building block
> for appl
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> > 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 RESE
