transaction_timeout

Nikolay and Michael discuss transaction_timeout (a recently committed addition for Postgres 17) — what it's for, how to get around not having it already, and whether it will replace the need to set statement_timeout globally in future.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• transaction_timeout (devel docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-TRANSACTION-TIMEOUT
• Commit: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=51efe38cb92f4b15b68811bcce9ab878fbc71ea5 
• Mailing list thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAhFRxiQsRs2Eq5kCo9nXE3HTugsAAJdSQSmxncivebAxdmBjQ%40mail.gmail.com  
• Hacking Postgres session on Postgres TV where work started https://www.youtube.com/live/WLoMpg8A4WU?t=50 
• Our first ever episode, on slow queries and slow transactions https://postgres.fm/episodes/slow-queries-and-slow-transactions 
• statement_timeout (v7.3) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-STATEMENT-TIMEOUT 
• idle_in_transaction_session_timeout (v9.6) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-IDLE-IN-TRANSACTION-SESSION-TIMEOUT 
• idle_session_timeout (v14) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-IDLE-SESSION-TIMEOUT 

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