Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend

> Would you use a kill operation in the way you describe above if you knew
> that it had, say, a 1% chance of causing a database-wide PANIC each time
> you used it?
>
> The odds of a problem are probably a great deal less than 1%, especially
> if the backend is sitting idle.  But they're not nil, and I don't think
> we have the resources to make them nil in this release cycle.
> Therefore I'm uneager to provide this feature simply because of "it
> might be nice to have" arguments.  There's a lot of other stuff that is
> higher on the priority list, IMHO anyway.

Can we keep the cancel query function and just lose the kill one?

Chris