Re: in transaction - safest way to kill

select pg_cancel_backend(<pid>);


--- On Fri, 5/12/08, William Temperley <willtemperley@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: William Temperley <willtemperley@gmail.com>
> Subject: [GENERAL] <IDLE> in transaction - safest way to kill
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Date: Friday, 5 December, 2008, 2:08 PM
> Hi all
>
> Could anyone tell me what's the best thing to with idle
> transactions
> that are holding locks?
>
> I just killed the process as I wanted to get on with some
> work. I'm
> just not sure this is a good idea when we go into
> production.
>
> Cheers
>
> Will T
>
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