It's like how in postgresql, if a client runs "select * from lots", and you kill the client, the query keeps going even though there's nobody to hand the answer

It's like how in postgresql, if a client runs "select * from lots", and you kill the client, the query keeps going even though there's nobody to hand the answer to. That said, there are ways we can mitigate this, primarily in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-685 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-685