Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
> The timeout will be useful to let the client or user decide on an
> alternate course of action other that killing his application (without
> the need for timers or threads in the client program).
This assumes (without evidence) that the client has a good idea of what
the timeout limit ought to be. I think this "feature" has no real use
other than encouraging application programmers to shoot themselves in
the foot. I see no reason that we should make it easy to misdesign
applications.
regards, tom lane