We have a large, complicated Web site that allows users to view a bunch of reports and select filters for said reports. However, sometimes the filter combinations can create a very long running query in Oracle, but we can't always tell until the query is run. We'd like to present the user with a page explaining the problem and offering to let them wait or receive the report by email. We have several ideas on how to implement this but they're all pretty ugly. I'm curious to know how others have solved (or might solve) this problem.

We are running Perl 5.6.1 on RH Advanced Server 2.3 with Mason 1.03 (yeah, I know it's old.)

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (OT) Handling long-running queries with mod_perl/Mason by Ovid

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