Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-06-22, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I've seen cancel *not* working. >> >> Even a moment's perusal of the code will prove that there is no >> situation in which a backend will respond to SIGTERM but not SIGINT
> "idle in transaction". (or "idle" for that matter, but that's usually less > significant.) In that case there's no query to cancel, so I would dispute the claim that that constitutes "not working". QueryCancel is defined to cancel the current query, not necessarily to abort your whole transaction. (Before 8.0 there wasn't much of a difference, but now there is: QueryCancel is an ordinary error that can be trapped by a savepoint. Are you arguing it should not be so trappable?) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match