Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

From: Christian Schröder <cs(at)deriva(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?
Date: 2007-10-24 06:49:04
Message-ID: 471EEAE0.8040400@deriva.de
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> look for the query's procpid and then issue a select
> pg_cancel_backend('the_id')
>

Does it do any harm if I kill (either with signal 9 or signal 15) the
single backend process (and not the postmaster)?

Regards,
Christian

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