Re: SIGNALNAME in "pg_ctl kill"

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:02:00PM -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> pg_ctl --help lists the various SIGNALNAME options to use with "pg_ctk kill"...
>
> Allowed signal names for kill:
>   HUP INT QUIT ABRT TERM USR1 USR2
>
> I can't find a description of what each does.  I'd like to abort just the procpid I enter, but using ABRT has a
tendancyto kill lots of other stuff too. 

It's a little hard to find, but what various signals do to the back
end is contained in the postgres (server process) manual page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/app-postgres.html

I suspect the line you want is, "To cancel a running query, send the
SIGINT signal to the process running that command."

A

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