Re: How to disconnect a single user in Postgresql 8.2.5 from a database

Ahhh, ok.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Lewis Kapell <lkapell@setonhome.org> wrote:
> pg_cancel_backend() and pg_terminate_backend() do different things. From the
> documentation:
>
> pg_cancel_backend(pid int)      Cancel a backend's current query
> pg_terminate_backend(pid int)   Terminate a backend
>
>
>
> On 4/19/2010 11:07 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Josh Kupershmidt<schmiddy@gmail.com>  writes:
>>>>
>>>> pg_terminate_backend() is just a SQL wrapper around:
>>>>    kill -SIGTERM [backend PID]
>>>
>>>> For versions before 8.4: if you can SSH in to the server, run the
>>>> above on the PID of the backend your user is connected to, and that
>>>> should terminate their connection.
>>>
>>> The reason the function isn't there before 8.4 is that that's not
>>> promised to work before 8.4 ... most of the time it will work, but
>>> once in awhile you could get nasty side-effects.
>>
>> So, pg_cancel_backend(pid) is the 8.3 version, that may or may not
>> always work then, right?
>>
>
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