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in reply to Unable to setup timeout for DBI execute call

Not certain why your method doesn't work, but have you tried DBIx::Timeout ?

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Re^2: Unable to setup timeout for DBI execute call
by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 05, 2008 at 00:47 UTC
    It doesn't work because of Perl's safe signals. The DBIx::Timeout module works around this effectively.