Re: How to disconnect a single user in Postgresql 8.2.5 from a database

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The reason the function isn't there before 8.4 is that that's not
>>> promised to work before 8.4 ... most of the time it will work, but
>>> once in awhile you could get nasty side-effects.
>
>> So, pg_cancel_backend(pid) is the 8.3 version, that may or may not
>> always work then, right?
>
> No, I didn't say that.

Well, my experience with it has been that it's similar and it doesn't
always work.