Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>
>>Killing backends with runaway queries is a routine administrative
>>task.
>
>
> Cancelling runaway queries is a routine task. I'm less convinced that a
> remote kill (ie SIGTERM) facility is such a great idea.
Of course, cancelling runaway queries on Oracle is only a necessity
if the DBA hasn't made use of resource limits - PROFILEs. ;-)
Mike Mascari