Re: vacuumdb can't be canceled

Control-C works here. What platform are you on? Can you reproduce it?

I just tried:

psql -c 'select * from pg_class, pg_proc' test

and control-C terminated the query.

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Kenji Sugita wrote:
> Vacuumdb command can't be canceled by Control-C and VACUUM is still running.
> When wrong database name is specified to vacuumdb, cancellation is required to
> stop VACUUM FULL which runs long.
>
> Option -c of psql forget to set signal handler for 7.3 or prior. Vacuumdb
> have no signal handler of cancellation for 7.4devel.
>
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> Kenji Sugita
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