On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the more important question is a policy question: do we want
> it to work like this? It seems like a policy question that ought to
> be left to the DBA, but we have no policy management framework for
> DBAs to configure what they do or do not wish to allow. Still, if
> we've decided it's OK to allow cancelling, I don't see any real reason
> why this should be treated differently.
Is there a hypothetical DBA that doesn't want a mere-mortal user to be
able to signal one of their own backends to do "cancel query, rollback
the transaction, then close the socket"? If so, why?
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fdr
