On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:00:22PM -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > Does anyone know if such functions have been added to version 8? See the 8.0 Release Notes in the development documentation: * Add function to send cancel request to other backends (Magnus) See also the "System Administration Functions" section in the "Functions and Operators" chapter. Here's an example: Session 1: CREATE FUNCTION sleep(integer) RETURNS void AS $$ sleep $_[0]; $$ LANGUAGE plperlu; SELECT sleep(60); Session 2: SELECT procpid, current_query FROM pg_stat_activity; procpid | current_query ---------+------------------- ... 95609 | SELECT sleep(60); ... SELECT pg_cancel_backend(95609); Session 1: ERROR: canceling query due to user request -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
