Re: cancel query

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>

From: Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>
To: H A Prahalad <prahalad@MPI-SoftTech.Com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-12-11T23:36:35Z
Lists: pgsql-general

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, H A Prahalad wrote:

>
> Hello,
> 	I want to know whether PostgreSQL support cancel() [cancel
> JDBCStatement]. I want to abort a long running query issued/executed by a
> java application using JDBC driver to connect to the database. Thanks.
>

The JDBC driver does support Statement.cancel(), but the tricky part is
that you need to have access to the Statement object that issued the
original query.  You can't just open a new connection and cancel another
query.

Kris Jurka