From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | Rudi Starcevic <rudi(at)oasis(dot)net(dot)au>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Query kill |
Date: | 2002-07-13 02:13:11 |
Message-ID: | 200207130213.g6D2DBX02816@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > If I write a query that is inefficient or in an eternal loop how
> > > do I stop it without restarting the postmaster ?
> > >
> > > I can see many postmaster processed appearing in the output of the 'ps'
> > > command.
> > > Do I need to stop/kill them all or can I stop just the query I want ?
> >
> > Just send a SIGINT to the process. That simulates a ^C, which works too
> > from the client like psql.
>
> Doesn't the client need a signal handler for that and call
> PQcancelRequest() in that?
Every backend has that signal handler defined, I think.
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