[ADMIN] Killing Processes

[Thomas F . O'Connell]

It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything 
stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default. 
Stronger signals will cause all backends to kill themselves because of 
paranoia about data corruption.

If the process does not respond to that, then there is no convenient 
way to kill it.

You can correlate processes to queries using the pg_stat_activity view.
-tfo
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Thomas F. O'Connell
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On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Ken Reid wrote:
Hi Thomas.
I have been searching high and low and cannot find a way to kill an
individual
user process with Postgres.
I have tried using a kill -9 to kill a specific process but that 
brings the
entire postmaster down.

This seems to be a very common problem with no answers.
Would you happen to know how to do this?
Thanks.
- Ken
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