Re: How to stop a query

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:17 AM, younus <younus.essahli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First :
>        ps -ef | grep postgres
> and  kill -9 (PID of your query)

NEVER kill -9 a postgres process unless you've exhausted all other
possibilities, as it forces a restart of all the other backends as
well.  A plain kill (no -9) is usually all you need, and it doesn't
cause all the other backends to restart and flush all shared memory.

> Sec :
> select procpid, datname, usename, client_addr,  current_query from
> pg_stat_activity where current_query!='<IDLE>';
>
> and
>
> SELECT pg_cancel_backend(procpid);

MUCH better way of doing things.