Re: How to release locks

On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Andrus wrote:

>> Do you mean that the statement hadn't been fully transmitted yet?
>
> Yes. Sending 2 MB takes most of time so client is terminated in
> this stage.
>
>> If so, the backend would have just been waiting for the rest of the
>> statement to arrive.  Perhaps you're looking at some sort of
>> network bug
>> that caused the backend not to be told that the connection was lost.
>
> If so why pgAdmin Cancel command does not terminate the process ?
> If process
> is waiting for data,
> Cancel signal sent through pgAdmin should terminate process
> immediately.

If pgAdmin's cancel is just dropping the connection, the server might
take some time to notice it, especially if it's in the process of
running a query and doesn't have reason to talk to pgAdmin.
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