Re: Plans for 8.2? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Plans for 8.2?
Date
Msg-id 19290.1137091898@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Plans for 8.2?  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de> writes:
>> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either via an SQL function or SIGTERM

> I thought this already works? At least I'm doing so when I need ...
> (SIGTERM)

The key word there is "safely".  We don't have a lot of trust in
SIGTERM'ing individual backends (as opposed to shutting down the
whole cluster at once, which is a well-tested code path).  See the
archives.

            regards, tom lane

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