Re: Killing only one postmaster

There can also be multiple backends... look for the PID you want to kill
(SIGHUP or SIGTERM) in your $PGDATA/postmaster.pid file

Michiel
At 23:57 11-4-2003 +0530, mallah@trade-india.com wrote:


>I think there is only one postmaster and multiple backends.
>
>To cancel the query being executed by a particular backend pid
>use
>
>kill -INT <pid_of_the_backend>
>its equivalent to pressing ^C in psql for that query.
>
>regds
>mallah.
>
> > How do I stop only one postmaster and not have the entire server
> > restart?  Is this possible.  I have had several situations where I have
> a function not
> > performing as I expect and need to kill just the backend process.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bo Stewart
> >
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