On 5/20/15 10:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> writes: >> +1. I agree that cancelling/killing your own process should not be the >> default behavior. > > I think backwards compatibility probably trumps that argument. I have > no objection to providing a different call that behaves this way, but > changing the behavior of existing applications will face a *much* > higher barrier to acceptance. Especially since a real use-case for > the current behavior was shown upthread, which means you can't argue > that it's simply a bug.
Just my 2 cents, but I think the argument for the default behavior is coming from a hacker viewpoint rather than a user viewpoint. I know it's handy for testing but how many real-world scenarios are there? I've recently jumped the fence after being strictly a user for sixteen years so that's still my default perspective. I was definitely annoyed when pg_stat_activity.pid changed in 9.2 but it was still the right thing to do. -- - David Steele da...@pgmasters.net
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