Re: Is there a way to kill a connection from the pg_stat_activitly list?

On 10/15/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
>
> "select pg_cancel_backend(procpid) " can end the current query for that
> user, but then this connection becomes IDLE, still connected.
>
> Is there a command for me to totally disconnect a user by procpid? Some
> times, I need to kick out a particular Postgres user completely.

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.


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