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

On 10/17/07, Moiz Kothari <moizpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please do not use kill

More like, please do not take advice from people who don't know what
they're talking about.

> it sometimes resets all the connection on your db,
> you might want to use

Honestly, was this supposed to be a joke?  Have you RTFM?  Have you
looked at the code to pkill?  pkill calls kill and frankly, pkill is
more dangerous if you only want to kill a single session.

Grr, I'm surprised to see such an uninformed statement on this list.

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