[Developers] Handling query timeouts

[Arthur van Hoff]

I've been struggling with the same thing. Here is what I usually do:

 

-       Re-try the query a few times to see if it fails repeatedly.

-       Try to rewrite the query to see if you can get the same results
more efficiently.

-       Complain to the mailing list...

 

It appears that there is not a good way to handle a query timeout and
recover automatically. I have run into some cases where a query would
occasionally timeout, but those cases turned out to be bugs that got
fixed pretty quickly. Usually the solution involves rewriting the query
to be more efficient. 

 

From: developers-bounces at freebase.com
[mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Rishav Rastogi
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:01 PM
To: developers at freebase.com
Subject: [Developers] Handling query timeouts

 

Can anyone suggest a good way to handle query timeouts?

Thanks

Rishav

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