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@jamponi.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com> 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
