On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 1:16 PM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> uses "immediately" and "will kill the running transaction" which reenforced the impression that this mechanism is
heavierhanded than it is.
It's intended to be just as immediate as e.g. pg_cancel_backend() and
pg_terminate_backend(), which work just the same way, but not any more
so. I guess we could look at how things are worded in those cases.
From a user perspective such things are usually pretty immediate, but
not as immediate as firing a signal handler. Computers are fast.[1]
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Robert Haas
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xijhqU8r2A