Re: libpq: How to cancel a COPY ... TO statement? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: libpq: How to cancel a COPY ... TO statement?
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Msg-id 991131.1636398341@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to libpq: How to cancel a COPY ... TO statement?  (Daniel Frey <d.frey@gmx.de>)
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Daniel Frey <d.frey@gmx.de> writes:
> after sending a COPY ... TO statement with PQsendQuery(), how can I cancel it properly?

> I tried using PQcancel(),

That's the correct way.

> but it seems to have no effect. Calling PQgetCopyData() or PQgetResult() afterwards does not go into a failure state.
AndI don't want to call PQgetCopyData() until it returns -1, as this might be a lot of data being read from the server
thatI don't need. 

You can't expect instantaneous response to a cancel.  For one thing, the
server might have already stuffed a good deal of data down the pipe.
You should keep pulling (and discarding) data until you get the end
or error response.

            regards, tom lane



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