Re: [HACKERS] Re: Cross-backend signals and administration (Was: Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role)

2012-03-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:17:36AM +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > I may be forgetting something obvious here but is there even a > function to send an interrupt signal? That would trigger the same > behaviour that a user hitting C-c would trigger which would only be > handled at the next CHECK_FOR_INTE

[HACKERS] Re: Cross-backend signals and administration (Was: Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role)

2012-03-26 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Hrm, I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. > > Me: "This mechanism hasn't been tested enough, and may still have nasty bugs." > > You: "Then let's invent some entirely new mechanism." > > I'm not seeing how that responds to the concern.

[HACKERS] Re: Cross-backend signals and administration (Was: Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role)

2012-03-18 Thread Noah Misch
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 05:28:11PM -0700, Daniel Farina wrote: > Noah offered me these comments: > > This patch still changes the policy for pg_terminate_backend(), and it does > > not fix other SIGINT senders like processCancelRequest() and ProcSleep(). > > ?If > > you're concerned about PID-reus