Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1
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Msg-id 42831BC2.308@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: Server instrumentation for 8.1  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:


> 
> 
> Not kill -9. Kill -9 is "safe" because it causes a complete restart of
> the postmaster (it's the same as a backend crash, really). Kill -INT is
> also safe, because it does a simlpe query cancel. 

I don't recall exactly; AFAIR this was discussed between Dave and Tom. 
Actually, *both* should be accessible (maybe with some restriction 
making it difficult to call it from an sql cmd line)

Regards,
Andreas


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