You can kill -TERM the postmaster that is executing the particular query.
cheers,
t.
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Dennis wrote:
> If I have a database running, and I see that
> there is a postmaster process taking 99.9% cpu.
>
> ie, a very large insert query.
>
> Is there a way to cleanly shut down that query from the client or admin
> side?
>
>
> -Thanks
>
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