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