MySQL - can I limit the maximum time allowed for a query to run?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to limit the max running time of a query on mysql server. I figured this could be done through the my.cnf configuration file, but couldn\

Answer 1

In the meantime the Twitter team released their changes to MySQL which implements this:

- Reduce unnecessary work through improved server-side statement timeout support. This allows the server to proactively cancel queries that run longer than a millisecond-granularity timeout.

See http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html and https://github.com/twitter/mysql/wiki/Statement-Timeout