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Is there a way to force Mysql from PHP to kill a query if it didn’t return within a certain time frame?
I sometimes see expensive queries running for hours (obviously by this time HTTP connection timed out or the user has left). Once enough such queries accumulate it starts to affect the overall performance badly.
Long running queries are a sign of poor design. It is best to inspect the queries in question and how they could be optimised. This would be just ignoring the problem.
If still want this you could use the SHOW PROCESSESLIST command to get all running processes. And then use KILL x to kill a client connection. But for this to work you have to check this from another PHP script since multithreading is not yet possible. Also it is not advisable to give users utilized by PHP grants to mess with the server settings.