Re: Killing a session in windows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Killing a session in windows
Date
Msg-id 200712161020.lBGAK6o10863@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Killing a session in windows  (Howard Cole <howardnews@selestial.com>)
Responses Re: Killing a session in windows
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Howard Cole wrote:
>
> >>>> Which you can do, no?  I thought pg_ctl's kill option was invented
> >>>> specifically to make this less painful on Windows.
> > I shall look into the pg_ctl options to see if the kill option does
> > what taskill cannot (thanks for the heads up on that)
> >
> Using
> $ pg_ctl kill TERM [pid]
> worked great. Since very few people seem to know about this, could I
> suggest making it more prominent in the server administration pages.

Agreed. I have added the second sentence to our 8.3 beta docs:

   Alternatively, you can send the signal directly using <command>kill</>
   (or <command>pg_ctl kill TERM [process id]</> on <productname>Windows</>).

You can actually use pg_ctl kill on Unix too but it seems awkward to
suggest it in the existing sentence.

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