Re: how do i kill user sessions? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:08, Ing. Jhon Carrillo wrote:
> I have a problem  with the users administration. When I want to erase
> (drop) some databases there's an error: ** database "name_db" is being
> accessed by other users.**  I want to kill the user sessions conected
> but i don't know how to do it   (Kill the user sessions).

First, use ps to find the pid of the offending users.  for instance:

ps ax|grep postgres|grep test
18925 pts/1    S      0:00 postgres: postgres test [local] idle

then, as the postgres superuser, kill the backend:

kill 18925