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

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend
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Msg-id 41057D6C.4010707@opencloud.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Function to kill backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> So what you'd basically need is a separate signal to trigger that sort
> of exit, which would be easy ... if we had any spare signal numbers.

What about multiplexing it onto an existing signal? e.g. set a
shared-mem flag saying "exit after cancel" then send SIGINT?

I guess this is getting away from the original patch though..

-O

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