Re: How to force disconnections from a Perl script?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:10:55AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote:
> The script is quite solid and has been performing flawlessly for
> several months now, with one exception: it fails irrecoverably
> whenever some user forgets to disconnect from mydb at the time that
> the script attempts to delete it (or rename it, for that matter).  The
> error is "ERROR: database "mydb" is being accessed by other users".

Why irrecoverably? If the command fails, you just wait and try it
again.

You could use the pg_stat tables to work out who is connected and use
pg_cancel_backend() to kill them. You could "kill -INT" them yourself.
You could change the pg_hba.conf to forbid logging in and then bouncing
the server.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
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