Commit b5dc7612 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Properly document that SIGTERM is OK for users to use on a postgres

session, now that pg_terminate_backend() uses it.

Josh Kupershmidt
parent 39d0653d
......@@ -732,14 +732,18 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
To cancel a running query, send the <literal>SIGINT</literal> signal
to the process running that command.
to the process running that command. To terminate a backend process
cleanly, send <literal>SIGTERM</literal> to that process. See
also <function>pg_cancel_backend</> and <function>pg_terminate_backend</>
in <xref linkend="functions-admin-signal"> for the SQL-callable equivalents
of these two actions.
</para>
<para>
The <command>postgres</command> server uses <literal>SIGTERM</literal>
to tell subordinate server processes to quit normally and
<literal>SIGQUIT</literal> to terminate without the normal cleanup.
These signals <emphasis>should not</emphasis> be used by users. It
The <command>postgres</command> server uses <literal>SIGQUIT</literal>
to tell subordinate server processes to terminate without normal
cleanup.
This signal <emphasis>should not</emphasis> be used by users. It
is also unwise to send <literal>SIGKILL</literal> to a server
process &mdash; the main <command>postgres</command> process will
interpret this as a crash and will force all the sibling processes
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