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From: Bzzzz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SET transaction_timeout inside a transaction
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:21:49 +0200
Message-ID: <20250919222149.27ab94c8@msi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:12:59 +0200
"Quentin de Metz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,

Hi,

> It appears that changing the transaction_timeout when inside a
> transaction does not work as expected.
> 
> Running the following script on master:
> 
> SET transaction_timeout = '1s';
> BEGIN;
> SET transaction_timeout = '3s';
> SELECT pg_sleep(2);
> 
> Fails with the following:
> 
> FATAL:  terminating connection due to transaction timeout
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
>         This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>         before or while processing the request.
> 
> A workaround is to "SET transaction_timeout = 0" before each
> override. But this resets the timer, which may not be aligned with
> this parameter's intention.

You'll see what others will say, but it looks pretty logical to me to
forbid an action on the one parameter your transaction directly depends
on when inside it.

Jean-Yves
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