Re: Stuck "idle in transaction (aborted)"

On 01/14/2011 12:01 PM, Nimesh Satam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a stale connection on one of our machine. The connection is
> shown as follows:
>
> 26286 ?        Ss     1:31 postgres: postgres reporting localhost
> (37118) idle in transaction (aborted)
>
>
> Can anybody let me know how we can get rid of such connection, is there
> are any command which will kill such a aborted transaction in a safe manner?

psql> select pg_terminate_backend(26286);

or

shell$> kill 26286


Do ***NOT*** use "kill -9" or "kill -KILL".

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Craig Ringer