Re: pl/tcl function to detect when a request has been canceled

[Peter Da Silva]

On 6/8/18, 1:12 PM, "Andres Freund" <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
    I'm not terribly opposed to this, but I wonder if the much more
    pragmatic solution is to just occasionally call a database function that
    checks this?  You could just run SELECT 1 occasionally :/
    
That seems to work, and I suppose in most cases the overhead could be mitigated 
by only calling it every N times through a loop, but it's not as clean.