Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Killing the backend to cancel a long waiting query

Re: [HACKERS] Killing the backend to cancel a long waiting query

From
Hiroshi Inoue
Date:
Paulo Scardine wrote:
>
> There are many interfaces that doesn't support canceling a long query other
> than killing the application or killing the backend using the server
> operational system.
>
> I've searched the docs, faqs and list archives; seen a lot of questions but
> no answers.
>
> So I hacked a small pggetpid and pgkillpid C functions, and now I can learn
> the backend's PID, start the query in a new thread, and kill the backend
> using another connection if I want. Its ugly, I know, but worked wonderfully
> with ODBC, the Delphi developers here and the users are very happy.
>
> Questions are:
> 1) is there a better way to do that?

Call SQLCancel().

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
    http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/