Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de> writes:
>> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either via an SQL function or SIGTERM
> I thought this already works? At least I'm doing so when I need ...
> (SIGTERM)
The key word there is "safely". We don't have a lot of trust in
SIGTERM'ing individual backends (as opposed to shutting down the
whole cluster at once, which is a well-tested code path). See the
archives.
regards, tom lane