From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query kill
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:53:28 -0400
Message-ID: <3D2F1798.E65AC418@Yahoo.com> (raw)
References: <200207120501.g6C51Vo14062@candle.pha.pa.us>
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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