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

On 10/16/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> select pg_cancel_backend(procpid) solved half of my problem...at least it
> terminated the query for that user... but it is still holding a user
> connection in IDLE state....If I have too many of those, Postgres may run of
> out of user connections....
>
> I already knew how to kill a connection if the connection is from the local
> host. But I have many remote connections coming from different machines...
> hard to kill with unix command "kill"... One time, I was testing to kill a
> particular connection on a testing machine, the entrie Postgres was brought
> down....

That's why I said to write a C stored procedure to do it and install
it on the server. That way you could call it the same way as
pg_cancel_backend.

> I need to find a safer, cleaner way to disconnect a user from Postgres when
> needed.

At this point in time, there isn't one.

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