Re: Killing a session on windows

Use "select pg_cancel_backend()" instead -- we have to do this periodically
when queries get timed out by the web server but Postgres doesn't notice /
doesn't get notified...

- Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Howard Cole
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:55 AM
To: 'PgSql General'
Subject: [GENERAL] Killing a session on windows


I have a database I want to drop on a windows server. Unfortunately I 
cannot restart postgres because it is running several live database.

To kill the offending session, I tried select * from pg_stat_activity to 
find the PID of the session, and then tried to kill it with command line:

taskkill /f /pid 1234

This appeared to kill the session, but postgres still thinks the session 
is live with the same process id.

Using the SysInternals process explorer - there doesn't appear to be a 
process with the given ID.

How can I get postgres to drop this session?

Thanks

Howard Cole
www.selestial.com

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