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  • Committer: Stewart Smith
  • Date: 2010-03-18 12:01:34 UTC
  • mto: (1666.2.3 build)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 1596.
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KILL [CONNECTION | QUERY] session_id
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Calling KILL will terminate a either a running query, or disconnect a
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connection, i.e. a session, from the database.
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The way this works is that your connection sets a 'kill' flag in the session
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you want to kill. At various points in query execution, a session will
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check if the kill flag has been set, and if so, will quickly exit. So while
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the KILL command will not strictly immediately kill the session, it should
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appear to be fairly instantaneous.
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Some engines such as Innobase will also check for the kill flag
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during a lock wait, allowing you to kill a session waiting for a row lock.