RSS Amplifier

Josh Brody · May 14, 2026

statement_timeout 0: Dirty plates, dead cooks, and kitchen fires

0
Sign in to vote or save

This page cannot be shown here. You can still read it on the original site — the toolbar below keeps your place in the directory.

so you got tired of alerts that your queries were timing out. that’s bad because alerts are good even though nobody likes the alerts. my mom didn’t like acknowledging she might have cancer either so she just ignored the headaches and vertigo and balance issues and then it was like ope stage IV brain cancer. the name makes it sound like a fix. it’s not. removing the timeout doesn’t make the slow…

so you got tired of alerts that your queries were timing out. that’s bad because alerts are good even though nobody likes the alerts. my mom didn’t like acknowledging she might have cancer either so she just ignored the headaches and vertigo and balance issues and then it was like ope stage IV brain cancer. the name makes it sound like a fix. it’s not. removing the timeout doesn’t make the slow queries faster, it just lets them run forever, and “forever” on a 1tb db with bad queries is how you lose the restaurant. let me explain what i...

Read on /posts/statement-timeout-0-casually/

Comments

Nothing yet. Say the first thing.

    Sign in to join the conversation.