Re: how to cancel a query ?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Schmitz <a.schmitz@cityweb.de> writes:
> > ist there any way to cancel a user query as dba ?
>
> Send a SIGINT to the backend process running that query, eg
>
>     kill -INT <pid>
>
> This has the same effect as a user-requested cancel (eg ^C in psql).

And finally documented in 7.3.  ;-)

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