Re: Statement.cancel() doesn't seem to work

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: JN <jim(dot)newsham(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Statement.cancel() doesn't seem to work
Date: 2010-04-06 05:52:18
Message-ID: 4BBACC12.9050204@opencloud.com
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JN wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to cancel a long-running statement (takes about 400
> seconds) by calling PreparedStatement.cancel() from another thread,
> but it's not working. Specifically, the call to
> PreparedStatement.cancel() completes normally, but the executing
> statement seems to complete normally (i.e., it still takes the same
> amount of time to complete, and it does not throw any exception). The
> sql being executed is a delete ("delete from qos_data where
> report_time < ?"). Is PreparedStatement.cancel() not implemented?

It is implemented, but it just requests that the backend cancels any
query in progress - there are no guarantees that it will be effective.

Does the query get canceled if you manually send a SIGINT to the
relevant backend?

-O

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