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The PAUSE JOB statement lets you pause IMPORT jobs, enterprise BACKUP and RESTORE jobs, user-created table statistics jobs, automatic table statistics jobs, changefeeds, and schema change jobs.
After pausing jobs, you can resume them with RESUME JOB.
Required privileges
By default, only the root user can control a job.
Synopsis
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
job_id |
The ID of the job you want to pause, which can be found with SHOW JOBS. |
select_stmt |
A selection query that returns job_id(s) to pause. |
Examples
Pause a single job
> SHOW JOBS;
+----------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+...
| id | type | description |...
+----------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+...
| 27536791415282 | RESTORE | RESTORE db.* FROM 'azure://backup/db/tbl' |...
+----------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+...
> PAUSE JOB 27536791415282;
Pause multiple jobs
To pause multiple jobs, nest a SELECT clause that retrieves job_id(s) inside the PAUSE JOBS statement:
> PAUSE JOBS (SELECT job_id FROM [SHOW JOBS]
WHERE user_name = 'maxroach');
All jobs created by maxroach will be paused.
Pause automatic table statistics jobs
> SHOW AUTOMATIC JOBS;
job_id | job_type | description |...
+--------------------+---------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+...
438235476849557505 | AUTO CREATE STATS | Table statistics refresh for defaultdb.public.users |...
(1 row)
> PAUSE JOB 438235476849557505;
To permanently disable automatic table statistics jobs, disable the sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled cluster setting:
> SET CLUSTER SETTING sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled = false;
