On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:05 AM Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> Also, I do not see the downside of sending a cancel query before severing
> the connection. If it is not processed, too bad, but if it is then it is
> for the better.
If the network connection is dead, which is the situation the patch
intends to detect, then PQcancel() isn't going to work, but it might
still hang for a period of time or forever. That seems like a pretty
major downside.
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