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From Christian Schröder
Subject Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?
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Msg-id 471EEAE0.8040400@deriva.de
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In response to Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
Responses Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> look for the query's procpid and then issue a select
> pg_cancel_backend('the_id')
>

Does it do any harm if I kill (either with signal 9 or signal 15) the
single backend process (and not the postmaster)?

Regards,
    Christian

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