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The use of persistent connections places no requirements on the length (or existence) of this time-out for either the client or the server.
Obviously even having that many rows in a database would instantly crash the machine and probably the entire internet, but "SELECT * FROM posts WHERE threadid = 1280003629 AND postid = 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999" should not, in principle, cause a timeout anywhere.