Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1

> > Not kill -9. Kill -9 is "safe" because it causes a complete
> restart of
> > the postmaster (it's the same as a backend crash, really).
> Kill -INT
> > is also safe, because it does a simlpe query cancel.
>
> I don't recall exactly; AFAIR this was discussed between Dave
> and Tom.
> Actually, *both* should be accessible (maybe with some
> restriction making it difficult to call it from an sql cmd line)

Actually, I take the blame for starging that discussion - it started
when I craeted the pg_cancel_backend / pg_kill_backend questions.

Now, I *want* these functions. But I want them to be safe :-) (I want
kill -TERM on the commandline to be safe as well!)

//Magnus