Hi, Tom, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 :-(. The same is true for user-defined C funtions. The PostGIS GEOS geometry functions come to mind, for complex geometries, they can need hours to complete. And as GEOS is a 3rd-Party library, I don't see an easy way to make them CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. Does anybody know how this is for plpgsql, pljava and plpython? HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org