On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 7:21 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> * SIGQUIT is a fairly well-known way to get out of an application when all
> else fails. People who aren't familiar with psql's exit commands might
> find it pretty unfriendly of us to block this off.
Also, sometimes psql gets into a state where it doesn't respond to ^C,
but ^\ still kills it. I don't know why that happens, but I've seen
it repeatedly.
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