Hi Chris, I've noticed that a Ctrl-C will also leave the query running (5.0.22 - Linux) and I've had to use the kill from mysqladmin or mysql client to get rid of it.
Regards --------------------------------------------------------------- ********** _/ ********** David Logan ******* _/ ******* ITO Delivery Specialist - Database ***** _/ ***** Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd **** _/_/_/ _/_/_/ **** E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **** _/ _/ _/ _/ **** Desk: +618 8408 4273 **** _/ _/ _/_/_/ **** Mobile: 0417 268 665 ***** _/ ****** ****** _/ ******** Postal: 148 Frome Street, ******** _/ ********** Adelaide SA 5001 Australia i n v e n t --------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2006 8:37 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Aborting a greedy querry from the command line On Monday 19 June 2006 04:02 pm, Scott Haneda wrote: > Sometimes I will issue something, slip of the fingers, and mysql will chew > on it for hours, the best I can do is control-z to get out of it and log > back in. But, I just learned these processes are still running, and I have > to go in and kill them by hand. CTRL+Z simply puts a process in sleep mode so it can be woken up later on. CTRL+C will kill the MySQL process (thus killing the query). While I don't like that method, it's the only one I've found so far. > Is there any easy way to abort from the command line and have it really > stop that query? > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 > <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- Chris White PHP Programmer/DB Overclocker Interfuel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]