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

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....

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

Thanks a lot,

Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: On 10/15/07, Jessica Richard wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
>
> "select pg_cancel_backend(procpid) " can end the current query for that
> user, but then this connection becomes IDLE, still connected.
>
> Is there a command for me to totally disconnect a user by procpid? Some
> times, I need to kick out a particular Postgres user completely.

From the command line on the server you can issue a kill
to do
that. From within pgsql you'd need to write a function in an
untrusted language to pull it off.

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