Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> look for the query's procpid and then issue a select
> pg_cancel_backend('the_id')
>

Does it do any harm if I kill (either with signal 9 or signal 15) the single backend process (and not the postmaster)?

Regards,

    Christian

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