Re: Function to kill backend

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > So I would vote for Yes on SIGINT by XID, but No on SIGTERM by PID, if Tom 
> > thinks there will be any significant support & troubleshooting involved for 
> > the latter.
> 
> So like I say, I'm hesitant to buy into supporting this without a fairly
> convincing argument that it's really needed.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a SIGTERM. The goal is to get rid of
unwanted idlers (connections). Could SIGINT be extended with a command
telling the daemon to shutdown or rollback the transaction as requested?