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

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 April 2010 15:27, Steph L <engel306sl@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> How to disconnect a single user in Postgresql 8.2.5 from a database ?
> AFAIK the only way is to upgrade to 8.4 and use pg_terminate_backend():
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-admin.html

pg_terminate_backend() is just a SQL wrapper around:
   kill -SIGTERM [backend PID]

For versions before 8.4: if you can SSH in to the server, run the
above on the PID of the backend your user is connected to, and that
should terminate their connection.

Josh