Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> pg_terminate_backend()
> exposing kill -SIGTERM <backendpid> to the client
The objections to this have not changed since last year; in fact they
are stronger because we have at least one report of actual trouble
with retail SIGTERMs.
> pg_file_stat()
> pg_file_length()
> pg_file_read()
> pg_file_write()
> pg_file_unlink()
> pg_file_rename()
> pg_dir_ls()
I really have serious doubts about the value of this.
regards, tom lane