If the connection is from the local machine, I can find it with "ps -ef | grep 
procpid", then kill it with Unix command "kill" outside Postgres...

But I have many remote connections coming from different machines...it is hard 
to kill on the OS level outside Postgres on the postgres host...

I am looking for something to kill a Postgres user connection within Postgres...
Some thing like, you find the user connection with select * from 
pg_stat_activity...then you pick a procpid and kill right there...

Thanks,


Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:34 PM, 
in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jonah H.
Harris"  wrote: 
> 
> There used to be a pg_terminate_backend, but it was #ifdef'd out due
> to corruption concerns.  Basically, all it did was:
> 
> kill -TERM pid
> 
> I'm not sure whether anyone has completed the research required to
> know if anything remains corrupted, but it is used occasionally.  Best
> to do pg_cancel_backend and then kill -TERM.
 
Where does pg_ctl kill fit in?
 
Is TERM the normal signal to use there, too?
 
Should the pg_ctl docs give some guidelines on the signals?
 
-Kevin
 



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