Hi:
How does one make a metadata change to a DB that's actively being used. Specifically, I want to drop a view, drop some columns from a table that's used in the view, recreate the view without those columns.
In the past, I've resorted to connecting as a super user, running "select procpid from pg_stat_activity..." then pg_ctl kill ABRT <procpid>. This would create a window where I could get in and make the change. But it also created some angry users whos processes got killed.
V8.3.4 on linux.
Thanks for any advice !