| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_terminate_backend |
| Date: | 2006-08-03 17:12:44 |
| Message-ID: | 44D22E8C.7010406@pse-consulting.de |
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Csaba Nagy wrote:
>> "man kill" says the default is SIGTERM.
>>
>
> OK, so that means I do use it... is it known to be dangerous ? I thought
> till now that it is safe to use.
Apparently you never suffered any problems from that; neither did I.
> What about "select pg_cancel_backend()"
>
That's the function wrapper around kill -SIGINT, which is probably the
way you could safely stop your queries most of the time.
Regards,
Andreas
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