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Re: BUG #17698: On SIGTERM, psql terminates, but leaves the statement running

Dmytro Astapov <dastapov@gmail.com> — 2023-01-16T19:44:36Z

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 3:21 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

> On 2022-Nov-25, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps psql could have a SIGTERM handler that does roughly what
> > SIGINT handler does before terminating the whole process, and would
> > cancel the current statement (if any)?
>
> Sure.  I doubt we want to wait until a reply to the cancel request is
> obtained, but we could have the sigterm handler at least send it before
> terminating.
>
> Why do you send SIGTERM to psql anyway?
>
>
The way the story was told to me by the user, they started psql from inside
the neovim session and then cancelled it with Ctrl-C. Apparently, neovim
(unlike, say, vim) sends SIGTERM to the child process in this case (whereas
vim will send SIGINT).


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D. Astapov