From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
Cc: | david(at)fetter(dot)org, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org, rsmogura(at)softperience(dot)eu, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us |
Subject: | Re: [JDBC] Support for JDBC setQueryTimeout, et al. |
Date: | 2010-10-21 18:06:08 |
Message-ID: | 201010211806.o9LI68Z23488@momjian.us |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > why would we do this client-side rather than server-side?
>
> Because the timeout is supposed to be a limit on the time allowed
> for specific Java methods to complete, which might be running a
> large number of SQL statements within one invocation, and which may
> include significant network latency. It's a lot of work to get
> "pretty close" on the server side, and you can never really
> implement exactly what the JDBC API is requesting.
>
> What if you have an app which can draw data from any of a number of
> remote databases, and you want to use this limit so if one becomes
> unavailable for some reason you can re-run the request on another
> within a reasonable time? The network connection goes down after
> you submit your request, you've got a period of minutes or hours
> until TCP gives up, and the user expects a response within a few
> seconds...
>
> If you implement something with server-side semantics, there's
> nothing to prevent an application which is PostgreSQL-aware from
> accessing it through JDBC, of course. statement_timeout and other
> GUCs can be set locally to your heart's content.
OK, thanks. Just had to ask.
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