It's rumoured that Christopher Kings-Lynne once said:
>> Wouldn't it be useful, though, to implement a "KILL" or "CANCEL" SQL
>> command that takes a backend ID as its argument (and, of course, does
>> the appropriate checks of whether you're a superuser or the owner of
>> the backend) and sends the appropriate signal to the target backend?
>>
>> That would make it possible for users to kill their own runaway
>> queries without having to run as whatever user PG is running as.
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> It would be awesome for phpPGAdmin as well. eg. Superusers would be
> able to cancel sql queries that gumby users are running, etc.
I'll second that for pgAdmin. I have times in the past where it would have
been useful on my own systems as well.
Regards, Dave.