On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, bricklen <bricklen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Not sure if anyone replied about killing your query, but you can do it like so: >> >> select pg_cancel_backend(5902); -- assuming 5902 is the pid of the >> query you want canceled. > > How does this differ from just killing the pid? pg_cancel_backend(5902) does the same thing as: kill -SIGINT 5902 Josh -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance