Bruce,
> OK, you have a runaway report. You want to stop it. Query cancel is
> only going to stop the current query, and once you do that the next
> query is fed in so there is no way to actually stop the report,
> especially if the report is not being run from the same machine as the
> server (you can't kill the report process). How do you stop it without
> SIGTERM? You don't want to shut down the postmaster.
Hmmm ... but, at least in the case of my apps, killing the PG connection
wouldn't fix things. Most apps I work on are designed to detect connection
failure and reconnect. I suspect that most platforms that use connection
pooling are the same. So your case would only work if you actually blocked
all connections from that host -- not a capability we'd discussed.
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-Josh BerkusAglio Database SolutionsSan Francisco