Re: Lock timeout detection in postgres 7.3.1

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> PostgreSQL 7.3 Documentation
> 3.4. Run-time Configuration
> STATEMENT_TIMEOUT (integer)
> Aborts any statement that takes over the specified number of
milliseconds. A value of zero turns off the timer.
> DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT (integer)
> This is the amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait on a lock before
checking to see if there is a deadlock condition
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> In this case I suppose 2 things:
> - table has a lot of records and you should just wait to finish
operation.
> - another query locked the table and it is realy a deadlock
>
Thanks Tomasz for pointing this out.
STATEMENT_TIMEOUT is exactly what I was looking for.
I should have had a look into the 7.3 Doc on my own.

Regards, Christoph