"Robert M. Meyer" <rmeyer(at)installs(dot)com> writes:
> Well, 'kill -INT pid' doesn't seem to have worked. This is 7.2.1. We
> really don't want to whack the system but we need to get back online...
You sure you sigint'ed the right process? I can't see that VACUUM could
take more than a few seconds to respond to a cancel --- it checks before
moving onto each new page.
regards, tom lane