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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Quentin de Metz" <quentin@de.me.tz>
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Subject: Re: SET transaction_timeout inside a transaction
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"Quentin de Metz" <quentin@de.me.tz> writes:
> It appears that changing the transaction_timeout when inside a transacti=
on does not work as expected.

The effective value is whatever it was at transaction start, because
that's when the transaction timeout time is determined.

			regards, tom lane