Re: Function to kill backend

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>>The function is pg_kill_backend(<pid>,<signal>). superuser-only, of
>>>course. Which simply sends a signal to the specified backend -
>>>querycancel, terminate, etc.
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>>If' we're going to have this shouldn't it be a proper command? And maybe 
>>an internal shutdown command to go with it?
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>I don't like the idea at all, but if we were to have something
>it would definitely need to be a lot more constrained than
>send-any-signal-to-any-postgres-process ... even for a superuser,
>that's a mighty fat-gauge foot-gun.
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What sort of constraints do you have in mind?

cheers

andrew