Hi, On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 17:19 -0600, Dan Harris wrote: > Is there some way I can just kill a query and not risk breaking > everything else when I do it? Use pg_stat_activity view to find the pid of the process (pidproc column) and send the signal to that process. I think you are now killing postmaster, which is wrong. Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/