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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

by Andrew Atkinson
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Setting a statement_timeout

The statement_timeout[116] can be set from the client application to set a maximum allowed time for statements. When the time is reached, the statements are canceled. A statement_timeout is set in Rideshare in the config/database.yml.

When queries are canceled for taking too long, they’ll need to be fixed so they run in less time. This is especially crucial for user-facing queries, although even queries for background jobs should be sped up when they’re excessively long.

Setting too low of a value for statement_timeout cancels queries unnecessarily. Not setting it at all means queries are allowed to run forever, consuming limited resources like database connections. A happy middle ground is to set a reasonable statement_timeout ...

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