On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:05 AM Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote: > Also, I do not see the downside of sending a cancel query before severing > the connection. If it is not processed, too bad, but if it is then it is > for the better.
If the network connection is dead, which is the situation the patch intends to detect, then PQcancel() isn't going to work, but it might still hang for a period of time or forever. That seems like a pretty major downside. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
