From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Mark Steben <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ctrl-c - is it safe to kill a query? |
Date: | 2010-02-08 22:49:06 |
Message-ID: | 201002082249.o18Mn6V20472@momjian.us |
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Mark Steben wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> We are running psql 8.3.7 and linux 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp
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> We had a situation this weekend where someone was running an update
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> On the psql command line and had to kill it.
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> It is considered 'best practice' to use cntrl-c to do so?
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> Or is there a better way? The transaction did roll back.
Sure, that is fine. It doesn't hurt anything. There is also a way to
do it from another session using using pg_cancel_backend().
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