Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007/10/24, Christian Schröder <cs@deriva.de>:
> 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)?
>

shared memory can be broken, and probably somewhere can stay some
garbage. It's depend on query.

Pavel


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