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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-06-23 21:28:10 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-06-23 21:28:10 +0000
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Update text of terminate:
< * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions < < Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as < though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be < cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination < because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they < have run the query cancel cleanup routine. < > * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either > via an SQL function or SIGTERM
-rw-r--r--doc/TODO12
-rw-r--r--doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html11
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index a3748962490..f40b1389095 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Fri Jun 17 21:45:55 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Thu Jun 23 17:28:04 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -91,14 +91,8 @@ Administration
This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
use by the postmaster. We do a similar thing for pg_shadow currently.
-* Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
-
- Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
- though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
- cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination
- because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
- have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
-
+* Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
+ via an SQL function or SIGTERM
* Un-comment all variables in postgresql.conf
By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index c1d1bcc8de3..9ff701afbb9 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Fri Jun 17 21:45:55 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Thu Jun 23 17:28:04 EDT 2005
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
@@ -88,13 +88,8 @@ first.
<p> This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
use by the postmaster. We do a similar thing for pg_shadow currently.
</p>
- </li><li>Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
-<p> Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
- though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
- cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination
- because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
- have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
-</p>
+ </li><li>Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
+ via an SQL function or SIGTERM
</li><li>Un-comment all variables in postgresql.conf
<p> By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
thinking that re-commenting a variable returns it to its default.