> > 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 > > > 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.
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