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Re: Function to kill backend

Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>

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From: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-06T19:58:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > So I would vote for Yes on SIGINT by XID, but No on SIGTERM by PID, if Tom 
> > thinks there will be any significant support & troubleshooting involved for 
> > the latter.
> 
> So like I say, I'm hesitant to buy into supporting this without a fairly
> convincing argument that it's really needed.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a SIGTERM. The goal is to get rid of
unwanted idlers (connections). Could SIGINT be extended with a command
telling the daemon to shutdown or rollback the transaction as requested?