"Craig A. James" <cjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Bottom line is that I was expecting "instant death" with SIGTERM, but > instead got an agonizing, drawn out -- but safe -- death of the query. What was the query exactly? Our expectation is that all or at least most queries should respond to SIGINT or SIGTERM interrupts pretty rapidly, say on a less-than-a-second timescale. However there are various loops in the backend that fail to execute CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS sufficiently often :-(. We've been gradually finding and fixing these, and will be glad to fix your case if you provide enough details to pin it down. You might be interested in this current thread about a similar problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-07/msg00039.php regards, tom lane
