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Re: Function to kill backend

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-06T20:02:39Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Not having a way to kill backends is like having no way to kill a
> > process except rebooting the server.
> 
> Some people think that making a database hard to kill is a good thing.

I can't argue with that.  :-)

I am researching the SIGTERM processing right now and will post in a few
minutes.

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