Re: pg_terminate_backend

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_terminate_backend
Date: 2006-08-03 16:53:51
Message-ID: 44D22A1F.30602@pse-consulting.de
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Csaba Nagy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:10, Csaba Nagy wrote:
>
>> You didn't answer the original question: is killing SIGTERM a backend
>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Nevermind, I don't do that. I do 'kill backend_pid' without specifying
> the signal, and I'm sufficiently unfamiliar with the unix signal names
> to have confused them. Is a plain "kill" still dangerous ?
>
SIGTERM is the default kill parameter, so you do exactly what I'm
talking about.

Regards,
Andreas

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