Re: pl/tcl function to detect when a request has been canceled - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pl/tcl function to detect when a request has been canceled
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Msg-id 20180608192154.shvmozcpstpnhlyf@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pl/tcl function to detect when a request has been canceled  (Peter Da Silva <peter.dasilva@flightaware.com>)
Responses Re: pl/tcl function to detect when a request has been canceled
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On 2018-06-08 19:16:49 +0000, Peter Da Silva wrote:
> On 6/8/18, 1:12 PM, "Andres Freund" <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>     I'm not terribly opposed to this, but I wonder if the much more
>     pragmatic solution is to just occasionally call a database function that
>     checks this?  You could just run SELECT 1 occasionally :/
> 
> After further discussion with our team:
> 
> Would this work if the reason for it ignoring the cancel request is
> that it is already performing a long-running spi_exec with a large
> response?

Not sure I quite understand what you mean. You're thinking of the case
where you're processing rows one-by-one with a cursor? Or that a single
spi call takes a long while to process the query?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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