On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Albe Laurenz wrote: > david harel wrote: > > I use postgresql on a Linux server on a virtual machine (despite my > protest to IT personal). > > The client is typically a web server implementing PHP sites. > > > > Customers many times close a page typically when a heavy report runs for > too long. > > Using the command "top", I got the impression that the query still runs > even though the page was > > closed. > > That is true. > > > I want to make sure the query is dropped when the customer closes the > page. > > Any method to kill such query would it still hang out there? > > One crude method would be to set statement_timeout to a nonzero > value - then queries that take longer than that many seconds > will be canceled.
you don't truly mean to advise that, do you? :) --patrick
