Re: Change pg_cancel_*() to ignore current backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2015-05-20 00:59, Jim Nasby wrote:
> I find it annoying to have to specifically exclude pg_backend_pid() from
> pg_stat_activity if I'm trying to kill a bunch of backends at once, and
> I can't think of any reason why you'd ever want to call a pg_cancel_*
> function with your own PID.

That's a rather easy way of testing that you're handling FATAL errors 
correctly from a driver/whatever.


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