On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Au contraire, it is not assuming anything. It is sending off a cancel
> request and then waiting to see what happens. Maybe the query will be
> canceled, or maybe it will complete normally, or maybe it will fail
> because of some error unrelated to the cancel request. In any case the
> backend *will* eventually report completion/error status, and the
> frontend does not assume anything until it gets that report.
Ah, okay; this was not my understanding. I'll look at the code again.
> Why does it need to know that? When it gets the error report back, it
> can notice that the error says "Query aborted by timeout" (or however we
> phrase it) ... but I'm not seeing why it should care.
I just meant it needed to know that the process had stopped prematurely; I
didn't mean it needed to know why.
I'll get back to you after doing a little more research.
j
