[Bizgres-general] pg_kill

[Mark Kirkwood]

Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I saw your checkin of this. What do you propose doing to address the
> underlying issues pg_terminate_backend() actually had?
>
>
>   

At the time we discussed this (June), the intention was to make this 
available for those folks that really needed a remote kill - along with 
the warning.

I see that this has come up on -hackers again, and I think the idea of 
setting up a workload to drive out any potential issues is the way to 
go. Whether we do this or wait for someone else (!) is a good question.

It is stretching my memory a bit, but I believe that the thinking back 
in April (when we discussed this at Greenplum) was that given our 
typical workload is typically composed of relatively few concurrent 
users mainly running SELECT queries, the risk is lessened.

What do you think?

Cheers

Mark