Re: more signals (was: Function to kill backend)

Tom Lane wrote:
> > ftok() on pg_control or something in the clusters data directory was my
> > intention. (Again, just one message queue)
> 
> Doesn't work; you have to be able to cope with collisions with
> previously existing queue IDs ... so in practice the queue ID has to
> be treated as quasi-random.  See the semaphore ID selection logic
> we use now.
> 
> I tend to agree with Bruce's nearby comment that we shouldn't be trying
> to solve this now.  I'd vote for commenting out the session-kill
> function for 7.5, and revisiting the issue sometime in future.

I already have it on the TODO list.

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