Re: ctrl-c - is it safe to kill a query?

Mark Steben wrote:
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> We are running psql 8.3.7 and linux 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp
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> We had a situation this weekend where someone was running an update
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> On the psql command line and had to kill it.
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> It is considered 'best practice' to use cntrl-c to do so?
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>  Or is there a better way?  The transaction did roll back.

Sure, that is fine.  It doesn't hurt anything.  There is also a way to
do it from another session using using pg_cancel_backend().

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