Re: Change pg_cancel_*() to ignore current backend

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> This whole discussion seems to be about making it easier to run SELECT
> pg_cancel_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity;. But that shouldn't be
> made easier! If anything harder.

Indeed.  I find it hard to believe that there's a real problem here, and
I absolutely will resist breaking backwards compatibility to solve it.
        regards, tom lane