* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> A saner
> approach, which would also help for other corner cases such as
> out-of-disk-space, would be to check for write failures on the output
> file and abandon the query if any occur.
I had considered this, but I'm not sure we really need to catch *every*
write failure. Perhaps just catching if the '\n' at the end of a row
fails to be written out would be sufficient? Then turning around and
setting cancel_query might be enough.. I'll write that up and test if
it works.
Thanks,
Stephen