On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 06:04:46PM +0100, Steve Tucknott wrote:
> Are there any plans to introduce the ability to 'interrupt' cursors?
> We have some large queries that the user may have set off inadvertently,
> and it may be handy to have the ability to send an interrupt to the
> engine.
Would pg_cancel_backend() work? Or could you set statement_timeout
to a reasonable value for certain users?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-SIGNAL-TABLE
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/runtime-config-client.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CLIENT-STATEMENT
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Michael Fuhr