How to configure a query timeout in Neo4j 3.0.1

Question

I\'d like to set a query timeout in neo4j.conf for Neo4j 3.0.1. Any query taking longer than the timeout should get killed. I\'m primarily concerned with setting th

Answer 1

Thanks to @stdob for the comment explaining a solution.

In Neo4j 3.0.1 Community, I verified that the following addition to neo4j.conf enabled a query timeout of 1 second for Browser queries:

unsupported.dbms.executiontime_limit.enabled=true
unsupported.dbms.executiontime_limit.time=1s

I did not check whether the timeout applies to queries oustide of Neo4j Browser, but I assume so. I did find some documentation in the Neo4j codebase for unsupported.dbms.executiontime_limit.time:

If execution time limiting is enabled in the database, this configures the maximum request execution time.

Answer 2

I believe dbms.transaction.timeout is the current way of limiting execution time