CANCEL QUERY

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New in v1.1: The CANCEL QUERY statement cancels a running SQL query.

Considerations

  • Schema changes (statements beginning with ALTER) cannot currently be cancelled. However, to monitor the progress of schema changes, you can use SHOW JOBS.
  • In rare cases where a query is close to completion when a cancellation request is issued, the query may run to completion.

Required Privileges

The root user can cancel any currently active queries, whereas non-root users cancel only their own currently active queries.

Synopsis

CANCEL QUERY query_id

Parameters

Parameter Description
query_id A scalar expression that produces the ID of the query to cancel.

CANCEL QUERY accepts a single query ID. If a subquery is used and returns multiple IDs, the CANCEL QUERY statement will therefore fail.

Response

When a query is successfully cancelled, CockroachDB sends a query execution canceled error to the client that issued the query.

  • If the canceled query was a single, stand-alone statement, no further action is required by the client.
  • If the canceled query was part of a larger, multi-statement transaction, the client should then issue a ROLLBACK statement.

Examples

Cancel a Query via the Query ID

In this example, we use the SHOW QUERIES statement to get the ID of a query and then pass the ID into the CANCEL QUERY statement:

> SHOW QUERIES;
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+-------------+-----------+
|             query_id             | node_id | username |              start               |              query               |   client_address   | application_name | distributed |   phase   |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+-------------+-----------+
| 14dacc1f9a781e3d0000000000000001 |       2 | mroach   | 2017-08-10 14:08:22.878113+00:00 | SELECT * FROM test.kv ORDER BY k | 192.168.0.72:56194 | test_app         | false       | executing |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+-------------+-----------+
| 14dacc206c47a9690000000000000002 |       2 | root     | 2017-08-14 19:11:05.309119+00:00 | SHOW CLUSTER QUERIES             | 127.0.0.1:50921    |                  | NULL        | preparing |
+----------------------------------+---------+----------+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+-------------+-----------+
> CANCEL QUERY '14dacc1f9a781e3d0000000000000001';

Cancel a Query via a Subquery

In this example, we nest a SELECT clause that retrieves the ID of a query inside the CANCEL QUERY statement:

> CANCEL QUERY (SELECT query_id FROM [SHOW CLUSTER QUERIES]
      WHERE client_address = '192.168.0.72:56194'
          AND username = 'mroach'
          AND query = 'SELECT * FROM test.kv ORDER BY k');
Note:
CANCEL QUERY accepts a single query ID. If subquery is used and returns multiple IDs, the CANCEL QUERY statement will therefore fail.

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