Re: Query kill

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > If I write a query that is inefficient or in an eternal loop how
> > do I stop it without restarting the postmaster ?
> >
> > I can see many postmaster processed appearing in the output of the 'ps'
> > command.
> > Do I need to stop/kill them all or can I stop just the query I want ?
>
> Just send a SIGINT to the process. That simulates a ^C, which works too
> from the client like psql.

Doesn't the client need a signal handler for that and call
PQcancelRequest() in that?

Jan

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