Safely Killing Backends (Was: Applications that leak connections)

Is there any stronger medicine that's available (for instance, when a
backend won't respond to SIGTERM) and has no unfortunate side effects?
I just ran into this situation the other day (and made the unfortunate
discovery that SIGABRT is as bad as SIGKILL as far as a postmaster is
concerned).

-tfo

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Thomas F. O'Connell
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On Feb 4, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Neil Conway wrote:

> Paul Tillotson wrote:
>> Does anyone know a safe way to shutdown just one backend
>
> Sending it a SIGTERM via kill(1) should be safe.
>
> -Neil