On 6/8/18, 2:21 PM, "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
Not sure I quite understand what you mean. You're thinking of the case
where you're processing rows one-by-one with a cursor? Or that a single
spi call takes a long while to process the query?
The former, I believe. One example (lightly obfuscated):
spi_exec -array a "SELECT this,that from table where stuff..." {
if {$use_cancel_pending && [cancel_pending]} {
error "cancelled in ..."
}
do_something_with_array a
more_business_code_here
and_so_on...
}