On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
> The problem is that even after the exception comes out of this code, is
> caught, and the transaction is rolled back -- we are still often able to
> start another statement which is running by the time the server gets
> around to interrupting the related back end process. Obviously, having
> the cancel of one statement actually interrupt the processing of a
> subsequent statement violates the popular principle of "least surprising
> result".
>
I think taking the ReceiveEOF portion of this patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2003-09/msg00175.php
would fix this in the single thread case. The multi-threaded case is
obviously more complicated. I don't recall why the original patch wasn't
committed.
Kris Jurka
