Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> This whole discussion seems to be about making it easier to run SELECT
> pg_cancel_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity;. But that shouldn't be
> made easier! If anything harder.
Indeed. I find it hard to believe that there's a real problem here, and
I absolutely will resist breaking backwards compatibility to solve it.
regards, tom lane