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From Hou, Zhijie
Subject RE: A new function to wait for the backend exit after termination
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Msg-id d227d6cf8ec447f6a680c08eebae1957@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
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In response to Re: A new function to wait for the backend exit after termination  (Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

-        however only superusers can terminate superuser backends.
+        however only superusers can terminate superuser backends. When no
+        <parameter>wait</parameter> and <parameter>timeout</parameter> are
+        provided, only SIGTERM is sent to the backend with the given process
+        ID and <literal>false</literal> is returned immediately. But the

I test the case when no wait and timeout are provided.
True is returned as the following which seems different from the doc.

postgres=# select pg_terminate_backend(pid);
 pg_terminate_backend 
----------------------
 t
(1 row)

Best regards,
houzj

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