Re: Forcing connections closed

You can kill the procs (connections) using kill -9 PID

For example,

ps aux | grep post

gives you a list of the postgres processes (all the active connections,
and main postmaster). Here you can see the IP of the manchines connected
from.
Therefore, its easy to create an shell script for killing the connection
of a client machine.

>Thanks for that, however that's quite heavy handed in that it will stop
>the postgres instance.
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>Is there any way to close connections to a database without stopping
>postgres itself?
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>E.G I have three databases, A,B and C, and only want to close C.
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>Thanks
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>On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:21, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
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>>pg_ctl stop    [-W] [-D DATADIR] [-s] [-m SHUTDOWN-MODE]
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>>e.g.
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>>pg_ctl stop -D /data/postgres/gex_runtime -m fast
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>>will shut down all connections and stop the postgres instance:
>>Shutdown modes are:
>>  smart       quit after all clients have disconnected
>>  fast        quit directly, with proper shutdown
>>  immediate   quit without complete shutdown; will lead to recovery on restart
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>>HTH,
>>
>>Greg Williamson
>>DBA
>>GlobeXplorer LLC
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:    Hadley Willan [mailto:hadley.willan@deeperdesign.co.nz]
>>Sent:    Thu 1/29/2004 1:03 PM
>>To:    PGSQL Admin
>>Cc:
>>Subject:    [ADMIN] Forcing connections closed
>>
>>Hello,
>>    How do I force postmaster to terminate active connections on other
>>databases?
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>>Thanks
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