Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:20:06AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> You sure you sigint'ed the right process? I can't see that VACUUM could
>> take more than a few seconds to respond to a cancel --- it checks before
>> moving onto each new page.
> Will vacuum respond to SIGINT if it's blocked waiting for a
> transaction to commit?
I believe so --- that's just a special case of waiting for a lock, and
SIGINT should be able to interrupt anything that's waiting for a lock.
regards, tom lane