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Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by marcosdumay on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:59AM (#47490461)
> how many web servers abort request processing if the connection drops?

I don't think I have ever seen a published web service which error log wasn't full of broken pipe messages. So, AFAIK, all.

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Re:The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredi... by toast0 on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:55AM (#47491232)
You only get a broken pipe when you write, which is often after you've already done most of the work.
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