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limiting execution time of queries

Dear list,

i want to limit the execution time of an SQL-query. That means, that the
query should be stoped if it takes longer that e.g. 10 seconds. How can
I do so?

Hagen

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Hagen Hoepfner wrote:
Dear list,

i want to limit the execution time of an SQL-query. That means, that the
query should be stoped if it takes longer that e.g. 10 seconds. How can
I do so?


Sure, use SET statement_timeout or in postgresql.conf.

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