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

>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:34 PM, in message
<36e682920710151034r2aaef401m5429e460ee0ac209@mail.gmail.com>, "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