On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:
> The message is truncated in SetBackendCancelMessage() for safety, but
> pg_{cancel|terminate}_backend() could throw an error on too long message, or
> warning truncation, to the caller as well.  Personally I think a warning is 
> the
> appropriate response, but I don’t really have a strong opinion.

And a NOTICE? That's what happens for relation name truncation. You
are right that having a check in SetBackendCancelMessage() makes the
most sense as bgworkers could just call the low level API. Isn't the
concept actually closer to just a backend message? This slot could be
used for other purposes than cancellation.
-- 
Michael


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