Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> I can see Zoltan's argument: for web applications, it's important to
> keep the *total* wait time under 50 seconds for most users (default
> browser timeout for most is 60 seconds).
And why is that only about lock wait time and not about total execution
time? I still think statement_timeout covers the need, or at least is
close enough that it isn't justified to make lock_timeout act like that
(thus making it not serve the other class of requirement).
regards, tom lane