Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
>> Parallel to pg_cancel_backend, it'd be nice to allow the user to just
>> outright kill a backend that they own (politely, with a SIGTERM),
>> aborting any transactions in progress, including the idle transaction,
>> and closing the socket.
>
> +1

Here's a patch implementing the simple version, with no more guards
against signal racing than have been seen previously. The more
elaborate variants to close those races is being discussed in a
parallel thread, but I thought I'd get this simple version out there.

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fdr