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To: "Paulo Scardine" <paulos@cimed.ind.br>
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Subject: Re: Killing the backend to cancel a long waiting query 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Paulo Scardine" <paulos@cimed.ind.br>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Paulo Scardine" <paulos@cimed.ind.br> writes:
>> I trust when you say "kill", you really mean "send SIGINT" ...

> I'm sending a SIGTERM. Would SIGINT be more appropriate?

Yes --- that would actually cancel the query, not cause the backend to
shut down.

			regards, tom lane