Oliver Jowett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> So what you'd basically need is a separate signal to trigger that sort >> of exit, which would be easy ... if we had any spare signal numbers.
> What about multiplexing it onto an existing signal? e.g. set a > shared-mem flag saying "exit after cancel" then send SIGINT? Possible, but then the *only* way to get the behavior is by using the backend function --- you couldn't use dear old kill(1) to do it manually. It'd be better if it mapped to a signal. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster