Re: BUG #4123: Statement.setQueryTimeout does not work with Postgres Java Driver

Ok, understood... that could not be so easy anyway :) I supposed that
it should be something, that lays in the JDBC specs...

Regards,

-- Valentine

On Apr 24, 12:28 pm, bo(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)ejurka(dot)com (Kris Jurka) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, valgog wrote:
> > Is it possible to implement the setStatementTimeout() as somethig
> > like:
>
> > s = c.prepareStatement("SELECT set_config('statement_timeout',
> > <neededTimeoutInMilliseconds>, false);" );
> > s.executeQuery();
> > c.commit();
>
> Not really.  This sets a global timeout for all queries while the JDBC API
> specifies that it is per-Statement.  Also this only protects against long
> running queries.  Recently there was some discussion on the JDBC list
> about soft vs hard timeouts and it seemed the conclusion was that people
> wanted setQueryTimeout to protect against things like the network
> connection dropping that statement_timeout can't do.
>
> In many cases statement_timeout is an adequate substitute for
> setQueryTimeout, but not in the general case that the JDBC driver must
> implement.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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