Re: Query kill

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > If I write a query that is inefficient or in an eternal loop how
> > > do I stop it without restarting the postmaster ?
> > >
> > > I can see many postmaster processed appearing in the output of the 'ps'
> > > command.
> > > Do I need to stop/kill them all or can I stop just the query I want ?
> > 
> > Just send a SIGINT to the process. That simulates a ^C, which works too
> > from the client like psql.
> 
> Doesn't the client need a signal handler for that and call
> PQcancelRequest() in that?

Every backend has that signal handler defined, I think.

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