Timeout attribute of cfquery ignored?

Question

I set up the following SELECT * test on a table with a huge number of rows, just to make sure the query would run over 1 second:
<cfquery name="test" datasource="#ds#" timeout="1">
          SELECT *
          FROM request_stats
</cfquery>
The debugging info indicates that the query took 2539ms, but instead of throwing an error the query ran & returned results. Maybe I am not understanding how the timeout attribute should work? The CF docs indicate that "Because the timeout attribute only affects the maximum time for each suboperation of a query, the cumulative time may exceed its value" -- but does a simple query like this one have suboperations?
I'm using CF9.

Answer 1

According to Charlie Arehart on New for CF9 (and 9.0.1): a query timeout that really works, with a caveat, the timeout attribute of the cfquery tag "generally does not work."
As mentioned in the same post, there is a query timeout option available in the CF Administrator for certain data source types, but unfortunately not for the ODBC Socket that I'm using.
Additionally, the CF9 docs indicate, regarding the timeout attribute, that "For JDBC statements, ColdFusion sets this attribute. For other drivers, see the driver documentation." So it's possible that the timeout attribute does work, but only for some drivers.