> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Also, what signal should people send to a backend to kill just that
> > backend?
>
> I don't know that we do or should recommend such a thing at all ...
> but SIGTERM should work if anything does (and it is, not coincidentally,
> the default kind of signal for kill(1)).
>
> > In my reading of the code, I see:
>
> > pqsignal(SIGTERM, die); /* cancel current query and exit */
> > pqsignal(SIGQUIT, die); /* could reassign this sig for another use */
>
> This is already obsolete ;=) ... I'm just waiting on Vadim's approval of
> my xlog mods before committing a change in SIGQUIT handling --- see
> discussion a couple days ago.
Yes, I knew that was coming, so I sayed with SIGTERM because it should
work on 7.0 and 7.1.
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