Re: how to cancel a query ?

If you wanted to do something programatically, couldn't you define some
functions that would allow you say implement a query id, and embed a
function call in the where clause like

select getNextQueryId()

where ...... and queryStillActive(query_id) = true

Then another function could be called to kill the query either from within
the program, or externally like

stopQuery(query_id).

You probably wouldn't want to do this for every query, but if you know you
have some potentially long running queries, then....

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schmitz [mailto:a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: Tom Lane; pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] how to cancel a query ?
>
>
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andreas Schmitz <a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de> writes:
> > > ist there any way to cancel a user query as dba ?
> >
> > Send a SIGINT to the backend process running that query, eg
> >
> > kill -INT <pid>
> >
> > This has the same effect as a user-requested cancel (eg ^C in psql).
> >
>
> What about an implementation into the command structure ?
>
> regards
>
> -andreas
>
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