How can I stop a MySQL query if it takes too long?

Question

Is it possible to timeout a query in MySQL?

That is, if any query exceeds the time I specify, it will be killed by MySQL and it will return an error instead of waiti

Answer 1

I thought it has been around a little longer, but according to this,

MySQL 5.7.4 introduces the ability to set server side execution time limits, specified in milliseconds, for top level read-only SELECT statements.

SELECT 
MAX_STATEMENT_TIME = 1000 --in milliseconds
* 
FROM table;

Note that this only works for read-only SELECT statements.