> >> Since I have a stuck backend without client again, I'll have to
> kill
> >> -SIGTERM a backend. Fortunately, I do have console access to
> that
> >> machine and it's not win32 but a decent OS.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You do know that on Windows you can use pg_ctl to send a pseudo
> > SIGTERM to a backend, don't you?
> The main issue still is that console access id required, on any OS.
Yeah.
Though for the Windows case only, we could easily enough make it
possible to run pg_ctl kill remotely, since we use a named pipe. Does
this seem like a good or bad idea?
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