On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 1:16 PM Mark Dilger <mark.dil...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > uses "immediately" and "will kill the running transaction" which reenforced > the impression that this mechanism is heavier handed than it is.
It's intended to be just as immediate as e.g. pg_cancel_backend() and pg_terminate_backend(), which work just the same way, but not any more so. I guess we could look at how things are worded in those cases. >From a user perspective such things are usually pretty immediate, but not as immediate as firing a signal handler. Computers are fast.[1] -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xijhqU8r2A
