Hi all,
in elderly versions, where pg_terminate_backend is missing, you'd
issue a kill -15 <pid> from the command line.
Bèrto
On 27 July 2012 09:33, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.pgsql-general@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>> Assuming a *nix server: if a monitoring program determines that an
>> established connection appears to be trying to so something inappropriate,
>> what's the best way of terminating that session rapidly?
>
> select pg_terminate_backend(procpid) from pg_stat_activity where .....
>
> The main difficulty is recognizing which PID to terminate, though.
> There's a good lot of information available in pg_stat_activity;
> logins, application names, and connection IP addresses are handy here.
> But ultimately, it's just pg_terminate_backend.
>
> ChrisA
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