> > Not kill -9. Kill -9 is "safe" because it causes a complete 
> restart of 
> > the postmaster (it's the same as a backend crash, really). 
> Kill -INT 
> > is also safe, because it does a simlpe query cancel.
> 
> I don't recall exactly; AFAIR this was discussed between Dave 
> and Tom. 
> Actually, *both* should be accessible (maybe with some 
> restriction making it difficult to call it from an sql cmd line)

Actually, I take the blame for starging that discussion - it started
when I craeted the pg_cancel_backend / pg_kill_backend questions.

Now, I *want* these functions. But I want them to be safe :-) (I want
kill -TERM on the commandline to be safe as well!)

//Magnus

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