On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:24:31PM -0500, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > 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 > Yes, but you can use it from within the database. The kill command requires shell access to the backend. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
