Re: Optional message to user when terminating/cancelling backend

On 06/26/2017 07:15 AM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> +1
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Unless you have a lot of users running psql manually, I don't see how
>> this is actually very useful or actionable. What would the user do with
>> the information? Hopefully your users already trust that you'd keep the
>> downtime to the minimum possible.
>
> I think this feature would be useful for PgTerminator
> (https://github.com/trustly/pgterminator)
> a tool which automatically kills unprotected processes that could
> potentially be the reason why
>> X number of protected important processes have been waiting for >Y seconds.
>
> When I'm guilty of locking this in the production DB and get killed by
> PgTerminator,
> it would be nice to know the reason, e.g. that it was PgTerminator
> that killed me
> and what process I was blocking.

And not just the pid but literally "what".

jD

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