Re: Does export operation cancel SQLs?

On Wed, 2025-02-19 at 06:54 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > We have PostgreSQL 16 running in GCP cloud SQL. When export job runs we are noticing these messages excessively:
> >
> > db=postgres,user=postgres ERROR: canceling statement due to user request
> >
> > Does Export cancel the SQLs? If not, why are we noticing these messages excessively during the export operation? The load on the instance is minimal
>
> It says “user request”.  I’d advise figuring out what was cancelled and what “user” did so.
> Probably DDL commands failing to get exclusive locks.

No, that message is from a cancel request, like when you interrupt your
currently running query with Ctrl+C in "psql" or invoke pg_cancel_backend().
PostgreSQL doesn't do that by itself.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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