Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend
Date
Msg-id 41045CF6.3050302@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Would you use a kill operation in the way you describe above if you knew
> that it had, say, a 1% chance of causing a database-wide PANIC each time
> you used it?
>
> The odds of a problem are probably a great deal less than 1%, especially
> if the backend is sitting idle.  But they're not nil, and I don't think
> we have the resources to make them nil in this release cycle.
> Therefore I'm uneager to provide this feature simply because of "it
> might be nice to have" arguments.  There's a lot of other stuff that is
> higher on the priority list, IMHO anyway.

Can we keep the cancel query function and just lose the kill one?

Chris


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