Re: vacuumdb cancel handler

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It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
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ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found vacuumdb, reindexdb and clusterdb don't have cancel handlers.
> The server continues to process commands when we press Ctrl+C on those
> client programs, though they exit. Therefore, "psql -c VACUUM" and Ctrl+C
> works well, but vacuumdb and Ctrl+C does not.
>
> I borrowed the cancel handler from psql and add it into vacuumdb, reindexdb
> and clusterdb. Other programs in src/bin/scripts also have the same problem,
> but I think it is worth porting only for maintenance commands because they
> take long time.
>
> This bug (or spec?) exists in 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. Those commands
> were wrappers of psql at 7.3 and we rewrote them into C programs at 7.4.
> We might forget to port the feature then.
>
> Regards,
> ---
> ITAGAKI Takahiro
> NTT Open Source Software Center

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