On Thursday 29 January 2009, Terry Fielder <te...@ashtonwoodshomes.com> 
wrote:
> and that ties to:
> 2) If I try to kill 1 postgres pid (e.g. to abort a bad query), the
> whole backend shuts down and rolls back.
> Can we get a way to look at and then kill a specific bad query?

select pg_cancel_backend(pid). Or kill pid from the shell, it only kills off 
one backend on 8.x anyway.


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