Re: Trapping QUERY_CANCELED: yes, no, maybe?

Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at> writes:
> referring to
> |     -- we assume this will take longer than 1 second:
> |     select count(*) into x from tenk1 a, tenk1 b, tenk1 c;

> Maybe
>     SELECT sleep('0:0:2'::interval);
> as used in regress/sql/stats.sql is a better way to ensure that the
> query takes longer than one second?

You think there's a serious risk of failure there ;-) ?

By my count the query will try to generate one trillion join rows.
        regards, tom lane