Re: Implementing setQueryTimeout()

Oliver Jowett wrote:
>> A network timeout or anything worse is handled in an entirely
>> different part of the code. That is not the responsibility of the
>> driver, and doesn't event need to be part of the database related code
>> at all.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here - if the connection to the DB fails, the
> driver will certainly handle that and tell you about it via a SQLException!

Sorry. Of course the driver must handle failed connections. I meant the
code in my application, which handles the two cases (timeout but usable
connection vs broken connection for whatever reason) differently.


Till