>> From: "Lars-Erik Bjørk"
>> Do we abort transactions that have been idle for a certain period of
>> time to avoid a malicious user keeping transactions open in order to
>> fill up our disks?
>Philip Stoev wrote:
> The server has some idle timeouts on the network level that will kill a
> completely idle connection after a few days, but those can easily be
> circumvented by sending select 1 over the wire.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Falcon and the server do not have any
> definite transaction-level timeouts or limits. I believe Jim's opinion
> is that if you have given access to somebody to your database servers,
> you deserve everything that will happen.
Pervasive.SQL and some other database systems have the ability to allow
a DBA to selectively kill a long running transaction or connection from
a separate connection. I do not know if this can be done in MySQL. But
it would be a server feature, not Falcon.
