Re: Server instrumentation

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> pg_terminate_backend()
>      exposing kill -SIGTERM <backendpid> to the client

The objections to this have not changed since last year; in fact they
are stronger because we have at least one report of actual trouble
with retail SIGTERMs.

> pg_file_stat()
> pg_file_length()
> pg_file_read()
> pg_file_write()
> pg_file_unlink()
> pg_file_rename()
> pg_dir_ls()

I really have serious doubts about the value of this.

            regards, tom lane